{"product_id":"systems-of-life-9780823281718","title":"Systems of Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSystems of Life offers a wide-ranging revaluation of the emergence of biopolitics in Europe from the mid eighteenth to the midnineteenth 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Systems of Life, or Bioeconomic Politics\u003cbr\u003e Richard A. Barney and Warren Montag 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Looking for (Economic) Growth in the Eighteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Christian Marouby 35\u003cbr\u003e 2. An African Diasporic Critique of Violence\u003cbr\u003e James Edward Ford III 56\u003cbr\u003e 3. Rousseau: Vital Instinct and Pity\u003cbr\u003e Pierre Macherey 82\u003cbr\u003e 4. System and Subject in Adam Smith’s Political Economy: Nature, Vitalism, and Bioeconomic Life\u003cbr\u003e Catherine Packham 93\u003cbr\u003e 5. Vitalism’s Revolution: John Thelwall, Life, and the Economy of Radical Politics \u003cbr\u003e Richard A. Barney 114\u003cbr\u003e 6. Writing Generation: Revolutionary Bodies and the Poetics of Political Economy\u003cbr\u003e Annika Mann 135\u003cbr\u003e 7. William Blake and the Time of Ontogeny \u003cbr\u003e Amanda Jo Goldstein 162\u003cbr\u003e 8. Concerning Hunger: Empire Aesthetics in the Present Moment\u003cbr\u003e Mrinalini Chakravorty 201\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Hero Takes a Fall: Gravity, Comedy, and Darwin’s Entangled Bank\u003cbr\u003e Timothy C. Campbell 236\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors 257\u003cbr\u003e Index 261\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406153064791,"sku":"9780823281718","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823281718.jpg?v=1730494712","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/systems-of-life-9780823281718","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}