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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• TeilnehmendeR: Barney, Richard A.; Campbell, Timothy C.; Chakravorty, Mrinalini.; Ford, James Edward.; Goldstein, Amanda Jo.; Macherey, Pierre.; Mann, Annika.; Marouby, Christian.; Montag, Warren.; Packham, Catherine.; Serrano, Joseph.
• MitwirkendeR: Barney, Richard A.,; Campbell, Timothy C.,; Chakravorty, Mrinalini,; Ford, James Edward,; Goldstein, Amanda Jo,; Macherey, Pierre,; Mann, Annika,; Marouby, Christian,; Montag, Warren,; Packham, Catherine,
• HerausgeberIn: Barney, Richard A.,; Montag, Warren,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Forms of Living
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 22
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780823281749; 9783110729009
• DOI: 10.1515/9780823281749?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Richard A. Barney, Warren Montag.

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.