Introduction : "a tendency to absence" : which other Adam Smith? -- "The pleasing wonder of ignorance" : Adam Smith's divisions of knowledge -- "Tumultuous combinations" : the transindividual from Adam Smith to Spinoza -- "Numbers, noise, and power" : insurrection as a problem of historical method -- "Immunity, the necessary complement of liberty" : the birth of necro-economics.
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"This book is an outstanding achievement: it offers a genuine, interdisciplinary perspective - spanning English literature, history of philosophy, history of the book/print and novel, social theory, and political history - in order to offer a socially important and largely original re-evaluation of the argument for a market society and Liberal political economy more generally."--Eric Schliesser, Ghent University.