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Systems of Life: Biopolitics, Economics, and Literature on the Cusp of Modernity

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Systems of Life: Biopolitics, Economics, and Literature on the Cusp of Modernity - Barney, Richard A (Contributions by), and Montag, Warren (Contributions by), and Campbell, Timothy C (Contributions by)
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Systems 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 ...

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Systems of Life: Biopolitics, Economics, and Literature on the Cusp of Modernity 2018, Fordham University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780823281718

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Systems of Life: Biopolitics, Economics, and Literature on the Cusp of Modernity 2018, Fordham University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780823281725

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