What's in a nineteenth-century philanthropist? Fear of anuprising. But the frightened philanthropist has a remedy. Aware that the urban
surge of the working-class masses in Spain would create a state of emergency,
he or she devises a means to seduce the masses away from rebellion by taking on
himself or herself the role of the seducer: the capitalist intellectual hero
invested in the caretaking of the unpredictable working class. Intellectual
Philanthropy examines cultural practices used by philanthropists in modern
Iberia. It explains the meaning and role of intellectual philanthropy by
focusing on the devices and apparatuses philanthropists devised to realize
their projects. Intellectual philanthropists considered themselves activists in
that they aimed to impact social structures and deployed a rhetoric of the
affect to convince the workers to join their philanthropic enterprise.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Intellectual Philanthropists and their Weapons of Mass Seduction
PART ONE: Staging Philanthropy
Chapter One: Musical Philanthropy: The Working-Class Spectacle
Chapter Two: Archiving Philanthropy
Chapter Three: Performing Los filántropos: The Theater as the Medium for a Theorization of Philanthropy
PART TWO: Bibliophilanthropy
Chapter Four: The Library Is the City: The Enactment of Democratization Processes in the Centros de Lectura
Chapter Five: Catechism of Industry
PART THREE: Philanthropy and the Female Working Class
Chapter Six: The Potential Not to Be: Domesticity, Economy, and Reading Practices of Women Workers
Chapter Seven: The Art of Dying Well: Philanthropy and the Imitation of Christ as Social Deactivation
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index