The "better angels" of capitalism : rhetoric, narrative, and moral identity among men of the American upper class /: rhetoric, narrative, and moral identity among men of the American upper class. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Andrew Herman.
• Other Names: Herman, Andrew, 1957-
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Mapping the ""Better Angels"" of Capitalism: Space, Place, and Story in the Moral Economy of Wealth; Rhetoric, Narrative, and the ""Better Angels"" of Capitalism; Emplacement and Emplotment in the Moral Economy of Wealth; 2 Story Spaces of Identity: Wealth, Power, and Narrativity in the Everyday; It's Obvious"": The Banal Truth of Wealth as Power in the Everyday; Story, Space, and Moral Identity; Story Spaces of the Ethical Subject of Sovereign Individuality 3 The Mastering of Fortune: Machiavelli, Masculinity, and the Subject of VirtùThe Machiavellian Uncanny: Shadows of Fortune and Virtue in a History of the Present; Taming the Goddess: Fate, Fortune, and the Renaissance Social Imaginary; Founders and Citizens: Machiavelli and the Narrative of Fortune and Virtue; 4 How Much Is Enough? Counting and Accounting for Money in the Market as Moral Space; Money, Property, and Identity: Tracking the Subject of Sovereign Individuality from Florence to Edinburgh; Conjuring Homo Mercator: Money, Virtue, and Commercial Society A Visitation with the ""Better Angels"" of the Market: Money, Liquidity, and Desire5 Stewards, Citizens, and Entrepreneurs: Discourses of Philanthropy as Manly Vocation; Benevolence, Beneficence, and Beyond: Crossing the Atlantic to the Topos of Philanthropy; The Grace of Wealth and the Duty of Fortune: Brahmin Boston and the Philanthropic Vocation of the Steward-Citizen; An Empire of Beneficence: Andrew Carnegie and the Philanthropic Vocation of the Steward-Entrepreneur; 6 The ""Better Angels"" in the End; References; Index
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.5/2/0973; Upper class men -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States; Wealth -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States; Rich people -- United States -- Language; Philanthropists -- United States -- Language; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General; Philanthropists -- Language; Rich people -- Language; Wealth -- Moral and ethical aspects; United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429309076; 0429309074; 9781000242973; 1000242978; 9781000314854; 1000314855; 9781000278910; 1000278913
• Related ISBNs: 9780367290320
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