Systems of Life : Biopolitics, Economics, and Literature on the Cusp of Modernity /
Systems of Life : Biopolitics, Economics, and Literature on the Cusp of Modernity /
ed. by Richard A. Barney, Warren Montag.
- 1 online resource (256 p.) : 22
- Forms of Living .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Systems of Life, or Bioeconomic Politics -- one. Looking for (Economic) Growth in the Eigh teenth Century -- two. An African Diasporic Critique of Violence -- three. Rousseau: Vital Instinct and Pity -- four. System and Subject in Adam Smith's Po liti cal Economy: Nature, Vitalism, and Bioeconomic Life -- five. Vitalism's Revolution: John Thelwall, Life, and the Economy of Radical Politics -- six. Writing Generation: Revolutionary Bodies and the Poetics of Politi cal Economy -- seven. William Blake and the Time of Ontogeny -- eight. Concerning Hunger: Empire Aesthetics in the Pres ent Moment -- nine. The Hero Takes a Fall: Gravity, Comedy, and Darwin's Entangled Bank -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Systems of Life offers a wide-ranging revaluation of the emergence of biopolitics in Europe from the mid- eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. In staging an encounter among literature, political economy, and the still emergent sciences of life in that historical moment, the essays collected here reopen the question of how concepts of animal, vegetable, and human life, among other biological registers, had an impact on the Enlightenment project of thinking politics and economics as a joint enterprise. The volume's contributors consider politics, economics, and the biological as distinct, semi-autonomous spheres whose various combinations required inventive, sometimes incomplete, acts of conceptual mediation, philosophical negotiation, disciplinary intervention, or aesthetic representation.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780823281725 9780823281749
10.1515/9780823281749 doi
Biopolitics--History.--Europe
Economics--Philosophy--History.--Europe
European literature--18th century.
European literature--19th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
JA80 / .S97 2019
320.01
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Systems of Life, or Bioeconomic Politics -- one. Looking for (Economic) Growth in the Eigh teenth Century -- two. An African Diasporic Critique of Violence -- three. Rousseau: Vital Instinct and Pity -- four. System and Subject in Adam Smith's Po liti cal Economy: Nature, Vitalism, and Bioeconomic Life -- five. Vitalism's Revolution: John Thelwall, Life, and the Economy of Radical Politics -- six. Writing Generation: Revolutionary Bodies and the Poetics of Politi cal Economy -- seven. William Blake and the Time of Ontogeny -- eight. Concerning Hunger: Empire Aesthetics in the Pres ent Moment -- nine. The Hero Takes a Fall: Gravity, Comedy, and Darwin's Entangled Bank -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Systems of Life offers a wide-ranging revaluation of the emergence of biopolitics in Europe from the mid- eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. In staging an encounter among literature, political economy, and the still emergent sciences of life in that historical moment, the essays collected here reopen the question of how concepts of animal, vegetable, and human life, among other biological registers, had an impact on the Enlightenment project of thinking politics and economics as a joint enterprise. The volume's contributors consider politics, economics, and the biological as distinct, semi-autonomous spheres whose various combinations required inventive, sometimes incomplete, acts of conceptual mediation, philosophical negotiation, disciplinary intervention, or aesthetic representation.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780823281725 9780823281749
10.1515/9780823281749 doi
Biopolitics--History.--Europe
Economics--Philosophy--History.--Europe
European literature--18th century.
European literature--19th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
JA80 / .S97 2019
320.01