Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. Systems of Life, or Bioeconomic Politics 1
4. one. Looking for (Economic) Growth in the Eigh teenth Century 35
5. two. An African Diasporic Critique of Violence 56
6. three. Rousseau: Vital Instinct and Pity 82
7. four. System and Subject in Adam Smith’s Po liti cal Economy: Nature, Vitalism, and Bioeconomic Life 93
8. five. Vitalism’s Revolution: John Thelwall, Life, and the Economy of Radical Politics 114
9. six. Writing Generation: Revolutionary Bodies and the Poetics of Politi cal Economy 135
10. seven. William Blake and the Time of Ontogeny 162
11. eight. Concerning Hunger: Empire Aesthetics in the Pres ent Moment 201
12. nine. The Hero Takes a Fall: Gravity, Comedy, and Darwin’s Entangled Bank 236
13. Acknowledgments 255
14. Contributors 257
15. Index 261