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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part One ‘‘NOW BEING’’: SLAVERY, SPECULATION, AND THE MEASURE OF OUR TIME -- 1. Liverpool, a Capital of the Long Twentieth Century -- 2. ‘‘Subject ’; or, the ‘‘Type’’ of the Modern -- 3. ‘‘Madam Death! Madam Death!’’: Credit, Insurance, and the Atlantic...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part One ‘‘NOW BEING’’: SLAVERY, SPECULATION, AND THE MEASURE OF OUR TIME -- 1. Liverpool, a Capital of the Long Twentieth Century -- 2. ‘‘Subject ’; or, the ‘‘Type’’ of the Modern -- 3. ‘‘Madam Death! Madam Death!’’: Credit, Insurance, and the Atlantic Cycle of Capital Accumulation -- 4. ‘‘Signum Rememorativum, Demonstrativum, Prognostikon’’: Modernity and the Truth Event -- 5. ‘‘Please decide’’: The Singular and the Speculative -- Part Two SPECTERS OF THE ATLANTIC: SLAVERY AND THE WITNESS -- 6. Frontispiece: Testimony, Rights, and the State of Exception -- 7. The View from the Window: Sympathy, Melancholy, and the Problem of ‘‘Humanity’’ -- 8. The Fact of History: On Cosmopolitan Interestedness -- 9. The Imaginary Resentment of the Dead: A Theory of Melancholy Sentiment -- 10. ‘‘To Tumble into It, and Gasp for Breath as We Go Down’’: The Idea of Suffering and the Case of Liberal Cosmopolitanism -- 11. This/Such, for Instance: The Witness against ‘‘History’’ -- Part Three ‘‘THE SEA IS HISTORY’’ -- 12. ‘‘The Sea is History’’: On Temporal Accumulation -- Notes -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung