Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies

ISBN-13: 9780367219963 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 336 str.

Inger Leemans; Anne Goldgar

Opis

This book researches the development of knowledge economies in Early Modern Europe. Starting with the Southern and Northern Netherlands as important early hubs for marketing knowledge, it analyzes knowledge economies in the dynamics of a globalizing world.

Spis treści

Introduction: knowledge - market - affect: knowledge societies as affective economies Part 1: Wish economies and affective communities 1. Knowing the market: Hans Fugger’s affective economies 2. Pennetrek: Sir Balthazar Gerbier (1592-1663) and the calligraphic aesthetics of commercial empire 3. Affective projecting: mining and inland navigation in Braunschweig-Lüneburg 4. The secret of Amsterdam: politics, alchemy and the commodification of knowledge in the 17^th century 5. Liefhebberij: a market sensibility 6. The shaping of young consumers in early modern book-objects: managing affects and markets by books for youths Part 2: Marketing and managing knowledge and affects 7. Marketing arctic knowledge: observation, publication, and affect in the 1630s 8. Coordination in early modern Dutch book markets: ‘always something new’ 9. The spectacle of dissection. early modern theatricality and anatomical frenzy 10. Rubbed, pricked, and boiled: coins as objects of inquiry in the Dutch Republic 11. The Amsterdam stock exchange as affective economy