Publisher's Synopsis
"Based on the doctoral dissertation of Aaron Greenberg (PhD, Northwestern, 2017), "Early Modern Matters of Life and Death" is a timely pre-history of modern life, including analyses of sovereignty, biopower, and new materialism. From Shakespeare to stem cells, from Francis Bacon to Black Lives Matter, this book revives the histories of life and death that created our world and continue to shape our lives. To grasp the ethical, spiritual, political, and scientific meanings of modern life, we must return to its early modern origins. Our lives depend upon it"--.
