Systems of Life

Richard A. Barney (Edited By) Richard A. Barney is an associate professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY. He is the author of Plots of Enlightenment: Education and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century England (Stanford University Press, 1999) and has edited several volumes, including Rhetorics of Plague, Early and Late for the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies (Winter 2010¿11). He is currently at work on a book about the biopolitics of the sublime in eighteenth-century Britain.Warren Montag (Edited By) Warren Montag is the Brown Family Professor of Literature at Occidental College in Los Angeles. His most recent books include Althusser and His Contemporaries (Duke University Press, 2013) and The Other Adam Smith (Stanford University Press, 2014). He is also the editor of D¿lages, a journal on Althusser and his circle, and the translator of Etienne Balibar¿s Identity and Difference: John Locke and the Invention of Consciousness (Verso, 2013).