Vorsorge, Versicherung, Finanzialisierung : = Precaution, insurance, financialization

Abstract: This article deals with recent insurance products aimed at people who wish to make provisions for themselves or others in the event of death or, more generally, to ensure the prosperity of future generations. These products are interpreted as a particular form of the financialization of households and intimate relationships. However, while the bulk of re-search into this phenomenon has emphasized the aspect of the penetration of such relationships by financial logics, the article approaches these products as examples of the constitution of financial products based on moral considerations in the field of intimate (especially: intergenerational) provision and care. Thus, morality and moral communication in intimate relationships appear as a condition for the constitution of financial ration-alities, logic, and flows. Conversely, the purchase of financialized insur-ance products can be reconstructed as reinforcing moralized forms of communication, because the sheer possibility of making financial provi-sion by means of a definitive conclusion of a contract makes scenarios of social finality - from unresponsiveness to death - the subject of negoti-ations between related parties. Thus it is the constitution of financial logics in terms of morality that gives financial capitalism, by way of providing se-curity, a significant impulse of legitimacy

Object Details

• Alternative title: Precaution, insurance, financialization
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Deutsch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Vorsorge, Versicherung, Finanzialisierung ; volume:13 ; number:2 ; pages:81-98 ; Behemoth ; 13, Heft 2, 81-98

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
• Keyword: Vorsorge ; Sicherheit ; Versicherung ; Moral

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Langenohl, Andreas

Further information

• DOI: 10.6094/behemoth.2020.13.2.1047
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-1745812
• Rights: Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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