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The weight of all flesh [electronic resource] : on the subject-matter of political economy / Eric L. Santner ; with commentaries by Bonnie Honig, Peter E. Gordon, Hent de Vries, ; edited and introduction by Kevis Goodman.

Santner, Eric L., 1955- author.; Goodman, Kevis, editor.; Honig, Bonnie, writer of added commentary.; Gordon, Peter Eli, writer of added commentary.; Vries, Hent de, writer of added commentary.; Santner, Eric L., 1955- Speeches. Selections.
2016
BT83.59 .W45 2016eb
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Title
The weight of all flesh [electronic resource] : on the subject-matter of political economy / Eric L. Santner ; with commentaries by Bonnie Honig, Peter E. Gordon, Hent de Vries, ; edited and introduction by Kevis Goodman.
Author
Santner, Eric L., 1955- author.
ISBN
9780190254117 (electronic book)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190254087
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages).
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190254087 doi
Call Number
BT83.59 .W45 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
201.72
Summary
Eric Santner offers a radically new interpretation of Marx's labour theory of value as one concerned with the afterlife of political theology in secular modernity. What Marx characterised as the dual character of the labour 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 centre of economic busyness today, its 24/7 pace.
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Eric Santner offers a radically new interpretation of Marx's labour theory of value as one concerned with the afterlife of political theology in secular modernity. What Marx characterised as the dual character of the labour 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 centre of economic busyness today, its 24/7 pace.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 22, 2015).
Added Author
Goodman, Kevis, editor.
Honig, Bonnie, writer of added commentary.
Gordon, Peter Eli, writer of added commentary.
Vries, Hent de, writer of added commentary.
Santner, Eric L., 1955- Speeches. Selections.
Series
Berkeley Tanner lectures ; 10.
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Santner, Eric L., 1955- Speeches. Selections.
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Weight of all flesh.
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Lecture 1. The weight of all flesh
Lecture 2. Paradoxologies
Comments. 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. Idle worship.

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