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Book SynopsisTable 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 261
