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
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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).
Other Standard Identifiers 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.
Note 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description 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.
Includes Santner, Eric L., 1955- Speeches. Selections.
Available in Other Form 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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