Jose R Torre

The Political Economy of Sentiment (eBook, ePUB)

Paper Credit and the Scottish Enlightenment in Early Republic Boston, 1780-1820

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Situates changes in the nature of money and the rise of sophisticated financial structures at the centre of the Enlightenment. This work argues that paper credit instruments were causal - critical to the larger epistemological and psychological changes associated with the Enlightenment's reconstruction of value.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317315278
• Artikelnr.: 43976175

Autorenporträt

Torre, Jose R

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Prometheus Unbound
Chapter 1 'Things Without Him': Locke and the Logic of Metallism
Chapter 2 Shaftesbury and Scottish Moral Sense Commercial Humanism: Inclinations Implanted in the Subject
Chapter 3 American Money and Political Economy, 1780-1828
Chapter 4 Banking and Money in Boston
Chapter 5 Likeness to God
Chapter 6 The Luxury of Pity
Chapter 7 The Political Economy of Beauty and the Imagination
conclusion Conclusion: Sense Subordinated to the Mind