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Author Santner, Eric L., 1955- author.

Title The weight of all flesh : on the subject-matter of political economy / Eric Santner and Kevis Goodman
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series The Berkeley Tanner lectures ; 10
Berkeley Tanner lectures ; 10.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 22, 2015)
Subject Political theology.
Collectivism.
Kings and rulers -- Philosophy
Collectivism
Political theology
Form Electronic book
Author Goodman, Kevis, editor
ISBN 9780190254117
0190254114