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Introduction: 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 261

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 06/11/2018
      ISBN13: 9780823281725, 978-0823281725
      ISBN10: 0823281728
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      Structuralism and Post-structuralism History of science

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Introduction: 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 261

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