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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480793703321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

0-8232-8487-5

0-8232-8174-4

0-8232-8173-6

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Forms of Living

Altri autori (Persone)

BarneyRichard A

CampbellTimothy C

ChakravortyMrinalini

FordJames Edward

GoldsteinAmanda Jo

MachereyPierre

MannAnnika

MaroubyChristian

MontagWarren

PackhamCatherine

SerranoJoseph

Disciplina

320.01

Soggetti

European literature - 19th century

European literature - 18th century

Economics - Europe - Philosophy - History

Biopolitics - Europe - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction. Systems of Life, or Bioeconomic Politics -- one. Looking for (Economic) Growth in the Eighteenth Century -- two. An African Diasporic Critique of Violence -- three. Rousseau: Vital Instinct and Pity -- four. System and Subject in



Adam Smith’s Political 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 Political Economy -- seven. William Blake and the Time of Ontogeny -- eight. Concerning Hunger: Empire Aesthetics in the Present Moment -- nine. The Hero Takes a Fall: Gravity, Comedy, and Darwin’s Entangled Bank -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.