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Infectious Liberty - Biopolitics between Romanticism and Liberalism (Hardcover)
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Infectious Liberty - Biopolitics between Romanticism and Liberalism (Hardcover)
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Infectious Liberty traces the origins of our contemporary concerns
about public health, world population, climate change, global
trade, and government regulation to a series of Romantic-era
debates and their literary consequences. Through a series of
careful readings, Robert Mitchell shows how a range of elements of
modern literature, from character-systems to free indirect
discourse, are closely intertwined with Romantic-era liberalism and
biopolitics. Eighteenth- and early-nineteenth century theorists of
liberalism such as Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus drew upon the new
sciences of population to develop a liberal biopolitics that aimed
to coordinate differences among individuals by means of the culling
powers of the market. Infectious Liberty focuses on such authors as
Mary Shelley and William Wordsworth, who drew upon the sciences of
population to develop a biopolitics beyond liberalism. These
authors attempted what Roberto Esposito describes as an
"affirmative" biopolitics, which rejects the principle of
establishing security by distinguishing between valued and unvalued
lives, seeks to support even the most abject members of a
population, and proposes new ways of living in common. Infectious
Liberty expands our understandings of liberalism and
biopolitics-and the relationship between them-while also helping us
to understand better the ways creative literature facilitates the
project of reimagining what the politics of life might consist of.
Infectious Liberty is available from the publisher on an
open-access basis.
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