Publication

2016 - Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Language

English

Word Count

80,000 words, Guess

Page Count

320 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780190254087
  • ISBN-100190254084
  • Library of Congress Control Number2015005148
  • OCLC Control Number903873709
  • Better World Books9780190254087
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCBT83.59.W45 2015
  • LCCBT83.59 .W45 2015
  • LCCBT83.59 .W45 2016

Description

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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