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

CONTENTS
PART I - “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

PART II - 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”

PART III - “The Sea is History”
“The Sea is History”: On Temporal Accumulation

Notes
Index