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Specters of the Atlantic, finance capital, slavery, and the philosophy of history, Ian Baucom

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Specters of the Atlantic, finance capital, slavery, and the philosophy of history, Ian Baucom

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [336]-376) and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Specters of the Atlantic

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bibliography

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60455015

Responsibility statement

Ian Baucom

Sub title

finance capital, slavery, and the philosophy of history

Table Of Contents

", 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

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