The Weight of All Flesh: On the Subject-Matter of Political Economy

by Peter Eli Gordon, Eric L. Santner, Kevis Gooman, et al.

Eric Santner offers a radically new interpretation of Marx's labor theory of value as one concerned with the afterlife of political theology in secular modernity. What Marx characterized as the dual character of the labor 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190254084
• ISBN13: 9780190254087
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.2" x 8.1"