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OverviewSystems 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Richard A. Barney , Warren Montag , Richard A. Barney , Timothy C. CampbellPublisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press ISBN: 9780823281718ISBN 10: 082328171 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 06 November 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Systems of Life, or Bioeconomic Politics Richard A. Barney and Warren Montag 1 1. Looking for (Economic) Growth in the Eighteenth Century Christian Marouby 35 2. An African Diasporic Critique of Violence James Edward Ford III 56 3. Rousseau: Vital Instinct and Pity Pierre Macherey 82 4. System and Subject in Adam Smith’s Political Economy: Nature, Vitalism, and Bioeconomic Life Catherine Packham 93 5. Vitalism’s Revolution: John Thelwall, Life, and the Economy of Radical Politics Richard A. Barney 114 6. Writing Generation: Revolutionary Bodies and the Poetics of Political Economy Annika Mann 135 7. William Blake and the Time of Ontogeny Amanda Jo Goldstein 162 8. Concerning Hunger: Empire Aesthetics in the Present Moment Mrinalini Chakravorty 201 9. The Hero Takes a Fall: Gravity, Comedy, and Darwin’s Entangled Bank Timothy C. Campbell 236 List of Contributors 257 Index 261ReviewsThis is an unusually strong collection of interdisciplinary essays. Barney and Montag have brought together a group of mostly younger or mid-career scholars who pursue questions of economy, biopolitics, and literature in a variety of fascinating ways. There is not another collection quite like it in print. -- Robert Markley, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign In its willingness to hold multiple registers in tension, Systems of Life models how these kinds of collections can continue to expand our analyses of the relationships between disciplines, cultures, and aesthetic traditions. * Eighteenth-Century Fiction * "This is an unusually strong collection of interdisciplinary essays. Barney and Montag have brought together a group of mostly younger or mid-career scholars who pursue questions of economy, biopolitics, and literature in a variety of fascinating ways. There is not another collection quite like it in print.---Robert Markley, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign In its willingness to hold multiple registers in tension, Systems of Life models how these kinds of collections can continue to expand our analyses of the relationships between disciplines, cultures, and aesthetic traditions.-- ""Eighteenth-Century Fiction""" This is an unusually strong collection of interdisciplinary essays. Barney and Montag have brought together a group of mostly younger or mid-career scholars who pursue questions of economy, biopolitics, and literature in a variety of fascinating ways. There is not another collection quite like it in print.--Robert Markley, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign This is an unusually strong collection of interdisciplinary essays. Barney and Montag have brought together a group of mostly younger or mid-career scholars who pursue questions of economy, biopolitics, and literature in a variety of fascinating ways. There is not another collection quite like it in print.---Robert Markley, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign In its willingness to hold multiple registers in tension, Systems of Life models how these kinds of collections can continue to expand our analyses of the relationships between disciplines, cultures, and aesthetic traditions.-- Eighteenth-Century Fiction Author InformationRichard A. Barney (Edited By) Richard A. Barney is an associate professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY. He is the author of Plots of Enlightenment: Education and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century England (Stanford University Press, 1999) and has edited several volumes, including Rhetorics of Plague, Early and Late for the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies (Winter 2010–11). He is currently at work on a book about the biopolitics of the sublime in eighteenth-century Britain. Warren Montag (Edited By) Warren Montag is the Brown Family Professor of Literature at Occidental College in Los Angeles. His most recent books include Althusser and His Contemporaries (Duke University Press, 2013) and The Other Adam Smith (Stanford University Press, 2014). He is also the editor of Décalages, a journal on Althusser and his circle, and the translator of Etienne Balibar’s Identity and Difference: John Locke and the Invention of Consciousness (Verso, 2013). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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