The Weight of All Flesh
On the Subject-Matter of Political Economy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 12 November 2015
- ISBN 9780190254087
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 142x206x27 mm
- Weight 482 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In The Weight of All Flesh, what Marx characterized as the dual character of the labor embodied in the commodity is shown to be a two-body doctrine transferred from the political theology of sovereignty (and its inherent doxa of the King's Two Bodies) to the realm of political economy.
MoreLong description:
Eric Santner offers a radically new interpretation of Marx's labor theory of value as one concerned with the afterlife of political theology in secular modernity. What Marx characterized as the dual character of the labor embodied in the commodity, he argues, is the doctrine of the King's Two Bodies transferred from the political theology of sovereignty to the realm of political economy. This genealogy, leading from the fetishism of the royal body to the fetishism of the commodity, also suggests a new understanding of the irrational core at the center of economic busyness today, its 24/7 pace. The frenetic negotiations of our busy-bodies continue and translate into the doxology of everyday life the liturgical labor that once sustained the sovereign's glory. Maintaining that an effective critique of capitalist political economy must engage this liturgical dimension, Santner proposes a counter-activity, which he calls "paradoxological." With commentaries by Bonnie Honig, Peter Gordon, and Hent de Vries, an introduction by Kevis Goodman, and a response from Santner, this important new book by a leading cultural theorist and scholar of German literature, cinema, and history will interest readers of political theory, literature and literary theory, and religious studies.
... gives the reader a fascinating insight into the vibrancy of thinking and arguing within the humanities ... This is an extremely rich and valuable book. It is focused on the most challenging and controversial question which economic thinking can be confronted with, namely, the question of the subject matter of economic science.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
The Weight Of All Flesh: On the Subject-Matter of Political Economy
Preface
Lecture 1: The Weight of All the Flesh
Lecture 2: Paradoxologies
Commentaries
Charged: Debt, Power, and the Politics of the Flesh in Shakespeare's Merchant, Melville's Moby Dick, and Eric Santner's The Weight of All Flesh
Secularization, Dialectics, and Critique
The Exercise of Paradoxological Thinking
Reply to the Commentators
In Response: Idle Worship
Index
