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Specters of the Atlantic
Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History
Taschenbuch von Ian Baucom
Sprache: Englisch

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Cultural and literary study of the 1781 massacre on the slaveship Zong for the insurance money and the aftereffects of the event on the development of modernity
Cultural and literary study of the 1781 massacre on the slaveship Zong for the insurance money and the aftereffects of the event on the development of modernity
Über den Autor
Ian Baucom
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix

Part One: “Now Being”: Slavery, Speculation, and the Measure of our Time

1. Liverpool, a Capital of the Long Twentieth Century 3

2. “Subject $”; or, the “Type” of the Modern 35

3. “Madam Death! Madam Death!”:Credit, Insurance, and the Atlantic Cycle of Capital Accumulation 80

4.”Signum Rememorativum, Demonstrativum, Prognostikon”: Modernity and the Truth Event 113

5.”Please decide”: The Singular and the Speculative 141

Part Two: Specters of the Atlantic: Slavery and the Witness

6. Frontispiece: Testimony, Rights, and the State of Exception 173

7. The View from the Window: Sympathy, Melancholy, and the Problem of “Humanity” 195

8. The Fact of History: On Cosmopolitan Interestedness 213

9. The Imaginary Resentment of the Dead: A Theory of Melancholy Sentiment 242

10. “To Tumble into It, and Gasp for Breath as We Go Down”: The Idea of Suffering and the Case of Liberal Cosmopolitanism 265

11. This/Such, for Instance: The Witness against “History” 297

Part Three: “The Sea is History”

12. “The Sea is History”: On Temporal Accumulation 309

Notes 335

Index 377
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780822335962
ISBN-10: 0822335964
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Baucom, Ian
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 233 x 172 x 29 mm
Von/Mit: Ian Baucom
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.12.2005
Gewicht: 0,617 kg
Artikel-ID: 102298321
Über den Autor
Ian Baucom
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix

Part One: “Now Being”: Slavery, Speculation, and the Measure of our Time

1. Liverpool, a Capital of the Long Twentieth Century 3

2. “Subject $”; or, the “Type” of the Modern 35

3. “Madam Death! Madam Death!”:Credit, Insurance, and the Atlantic Cycle of Capital Accumulation 80

4.”Signum Rememorativum, Demonstrativum, Prognostikon”: Modernity and the Truth Event 113

5.”Please decide”: The Singular and the Speculative 141

Part Two: Specters of the Atlantic: Slavery and the Witness

6. Frontispiece: Testimony, Rights, and the State of Exception 173

7. The View from the Window: Sympathy, Melancholy, and the Problem of “Humanity” 195

8. The Fact of History: On Cosmopolitan Interestedness 213

9. The Imaginary Resentment of the Dead: A Theory of Melancholy Sentiment 242

10. “To Tumble into It, and Gasp for Breath as We Go Down”: The Idea of Suffering and the Case of Liberal Cosmopolitanism 265

11. This/Such, for Instance: The Witness against “History” 297

Part Three: “The Sea is History”

12. “The Sea is History”: On Temporal Accumulation 309

Notes 335

Index 377
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780822335962
ISBN-10: 0822335964
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Baucom, Ian
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 233 x 172 x 29 mm
Von/Mit: Ian Baucom
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.12.2005
Gewicht: 0,617 kg
Artikel-ID: 102298321
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