By Eric Santner,Kevis Goodman

ISBN-10: 0190254084

ISBN-13: 9780190254087

Eric Santner bargains a greatly new interpretation of Marx's exertions thought of price as one fascinated with the afterlife of political theology in secular modernity. What Marx characterised because the twin personality of the hard work embodied within the commodity, he argues, is the doctrine of the King's our bodies transferred from the political theology of sovereignty to the area of political financial system. This family tree, prime from the fetishism of the royal physique to the fetishism of the commodity, additionally indicates a brand new realizing of the irrational middle on the heart of monetary busyness this present day, its 24/7 velocity. The frenetic negotiations of our busy-bodies proceed and translate into the doxology of lifestyle the liturgical exertions that after sustained the sovereign's glory. preserving that an efficient critique of capitalist political economic system needs to interact this liturgical measurement, Santner proposes a counter-activity, which he calls "paradoxological." With commentaries by way of Bonnie Honig, Peter Gordon, and Hent de Vries, an creation via Kevis Goodman, and a reaction from Santner, this crucial new e-book by way of a number one cultural theorist and pupil of German literature, cinema, and background will curiosity readers of political concept, literature and literary concept, and spiritual studies.

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