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

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082328171X
• ISBN13: 9780823281718
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"