Political Economy of Sentiment

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. 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;