Systems of Life: Biopolitics, Economics, and Literature on the Cusp of Modernity
In: Forms of Living Ser
Cover -- Systems of Life -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Systems of Life, or Bioeconomic Politics -- 1. Looking for (Economic) Growth in the Eighteenth Century -- 2. An African Diasporic Critique of Violence -- 3. Rousseau: Vital Instinct and Pity -- 4. System and Subject in Adam Smith's Political Economy: Nature, Vitalism, and Bioeconomic Life -- 5. Vitalism's Revolution: John Thelwall, Life, and the Economy of Radical Politics -- 6. Writing Generation: Revolutionary Bodies and the Poetics of Political Economy -- 7. William Blake and the Time of Ontogeny -- 8. Concerning Hunger: Empire Aesthetics in the Present Moment -- 9. The Hero Takes a Fall: Gravity, Comedy, and Darwin's Entangled Bank -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Index