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Baucom contends that the massacre and the trials that followed it bring to light an Atlantic cycle of capital accumulation based on speculative finance, an economic cycle that has not yet run its course. The extraordinarily abstract nature of today’s finance capital is the late-eighteenth-century system intensified. Yet, as Baucom highlights, since the late 1700s, this rapacious speculative culture has had detractors. He traces the emergence and development of a counter-discourse he calls melancholy realism through abolitionist and human-rights texts, British romantic poetry, Scottish moral philosophy, and the work of late-twentieth-century literary theorists. In revealing how the Zong tragedy resonates within contemporary financial systems and human-rights discourses, Baucom puts forth a deeply compelling, utterly original theory of history: one that insists that an eighteenth-century atrocity is not past but present within the future we now inhabit.
Baucom contends that the massacre and the trials that followed it bring to light an Atlantic cycle of capital accumulation based on speculative finance, an economic cycle that has not yet run its course. The extraordinarily abstract nature of today’s finance capital is the late-eighteenth-century system intensified. Yet, as Baucom highlights, since the late 1700s, this rapacious speculative culture has had detractors. He traces the emergence and development of a counter-discourse he calls melancholy realism through abolitionist and human-rights texts, British romantic poetry, Scottish moral philosophy, and the work of late-twentieth-century literary theorists. In revealing how the Zong tragedy resonates within contemporary financial systems and human-rights discourses, Baucom puts forth a deeply compelling, utterly original theory of history: one that insists that an eighteenth-century atrocity is not past but present within the future we now inhabit.
Ian Baucom is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. He is the author of Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity and a coeditor of Shades of Black: Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain, also published by Duke University Press.
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
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2005 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Thema: | Lexika |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780822335962 |
| ISBN-10: | 0822335964 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Baucom, Ian |
| Hersteller: | Duke University Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 233 x 172 x 29 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Ian Baucom |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 16.12.2005 |
| Gewicht: | 0,617 kg |
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