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Systems of life : biopolitics, economics, and literature on the cusp of modernity /

'Systems of Life' offers a wide-ranging revaluation of the emergence of biopolitics in Europe from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century. In staging an encounter among literature, political economy, and the still emergent sciences of life in that historical moment, the essays collected here...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Barney, Richard A., 1955- (Editor ), Montag, Warren (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Forms of living.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : systems of life, or bioeconomic politics / Richard A. Barney and Warren Montag
  • Looking for (economic) growth in the eighteenth century / Christian Marouby
  • An African diasporic critique of violence / James Edward Ford III
  • Rousseau : vital instinct and pity / Pierre Macherey
  • System and subject in Adam Smith's political economy : nature, vitalism, and bioeconomic life / Catherine Packham
  • Vitalism's revolution : John Thelwall, life, and the economy of radical politics / Richard A. Barney
  • Writing generation : revolutionary bodies and the poetics of political economy / Annika Mann
  • William Blake and the time of ontogeny / Amanda Jo Goldstein
  • Concerning hunger : empire aesthetics in the present moment / Mrinalini Chakravorty
  • The hero takes a fall : gravity, comedy, and Darwin's entangled bank / Timothy C. Campbell.