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

• Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 320.01
• Soggetto topico: European literature - 19th century; European literature - 18th century; Economics - Europe - Philosophy - History; Biopolitics - Europe - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BarneyRichard A CampbellTimothy C ChakravortyMrinalini FordJames Edward GoldsteinAmanda Jo MachereyPierre MannAnnika MaroubyChristian MontagWarren PackhamCatherine SerranoJoseph
• Persona (resp. second.): BarneyRichard A.; MontagWarren
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Systems of Life
• ISBN: 0-8232-8487-5; 0-8232-8174-4; 0-8232-8173-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910480793703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Forms of living.