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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- 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 her...
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Forms of Living Ser.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Systems of Life; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Introduction: Systems of Life, or Bioeconomic Politics; 1. Looking for (Economic) Growth in the Eighteenth Century; 2. An African Diasporic Critique of Violence; 3. Rousseau: Vital Instinct and Pity; 4. System and Subject in Adam Smith's Political Economy: Nature, Vitalism, and Bioeconomic Life; 5. Vitalism's Revolution: John Thelwall, Life, and the Economy of Radical Politics; 6. Writing Generation: Revolutionary Bodies and the Poetics of Political Economy; 7. William Blake and the Time of Ontogeny.
- 8. Concerning Hunger: Empire Aesthetics in the Present Moment9. The Hero Takes a Fall: Gravity, Comedy, and Darwin's Entangled Bank; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Index.