Specters of the Atlantic Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History

Name: Specters of the Atlantic Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History
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ISBN: 9780822335962

ISBN-10: 0822335964

ISBN-13: 9780822335962

Edition: 2005

Authors: Ian Baucom

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 12/16/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.352
Language: English



Acknowledgments



"Now Being": Slavery, Speculation, and the Measure of Our Time



Liverpool, a Capital of the Long Twentieth Century



"Subject $"; or, the "Type" of the Modern



"Madam Death! Madam Death!": Credit, Insurance, and the Atlantic Cycle of Capital Accumulation



"Signum Rememorativum, Demonstrativum, Prognostikon": Modernity and the Truth Event



"Please decide": The Singular and the Speculative



Specters of the Atlantic: Slavery and the Witness



Frontispiece: Testimony, Rights, and the State of Exception



The View from the Window: Sympathy, Melancholy, and the Problem of "Humanity"



The Fact of History: On Cosmopolitan Interestedness



The Imaginary Resentment of the Dead: A Theory of Melancholy Sentiment



"To Tumble into It, and Gasp for Breath as We Go Down": The Idea of Suffering and the Case of Liberal Cosmopolitanism



This/Such, for Instance: The Witness against "History"



"The Sea Is History"



"The Sea is History": On Temporal Accumulation


Notes


Index