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Systems of Life : Biopolitics, Economics, and Literature on the Cusp of Modernity / ed. by Richard A. Barney, Warren Montag.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Forms of LivingPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 22Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780823281725
  • 9780823281749
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.01 23
LOC classification:
  • JA80 .S97 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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