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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
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 |
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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 |
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
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 |
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