Historicizing Self-Interest in the Modern Atlantic World : A Plea for Ego? (Hardcover)

Introduction: The Search for Self-Interest and the Problems with its Historicization Christine Zabel Part 1: Creating, Inspiring and Calculating Self-Interest 1. Improvement, Projecting, and Self-Interest in the Hartlib Circle, c. 1640?1660 Ted McCormick 2. Reckoning Self-Interest at the French Revolutionary Comite des Finances Christine Zabel Part 2: Understanding, Teaching, and Learning about Self-Interest 3. Commercial Sociability and the Management of Self-Interest in Isaac de Pinto’s Letter on Card-Playing Koen Stapelbroek 4. The Concept of Self-interest in Eighteenth Century Anthropology and Economic Theory. From Richard Cumberland to Adam Smith Simone de Angelis 5. The Problem of Embeddedness Revisited. Self-Interest as a Challenge in Ethnographic and Historical Research Christof Dejung Part 3: Embodying, Feeling and Practicing Self-Interest 6. Commercial Desires in a Web of Interest. Dutch Discourses on (Self-)interest, 1600-1830 Inger Leemans 7. Practical Knowledge of Self-Interest: The Disembedding of Agency in Rural Areas, Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries Ulrich Pfister and Friederike Scholten-Buschhoff 8. Pursuing Self-Interest: Stock Market Speculation in the Early Twentieth-Century United States Daniel Menning Part 4: Taming Self-Interest, Self-Interest as Limitation 9. Interest as an Enduring Political Problem in Early Modern France Rafe Blaufarb 10. Self-Interest, Speculation, and Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America Cornelius Torp 11. Against Self-interest: The Codification of “Disinterestedness” as an Axiological Operator, in Religion, Aesthetics, and the Ethics of Intellectual Professions Gisele Sapiro