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

Systems of Life: Biopolitics, Economics, and Literature on the Cusp of Modernity
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Country
United States
Published
6 November 2018
Pages
280
ISBN
9780823281718

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

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 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.

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