'The king is dead. Long live the king'! In early modern Europe, the king's body was literally sovereign - and the right to rule was immediately transferrable to the next monarch in line upon the king's death. In "The Royal Remains", Eric L. Santner argues that this carnal dimension of sovereignty hasn't disappeared from politics. Instead, it has migrated to a new location - the life of the people - where something royal continues to linger in the way we obsessively track and measure the vicissitudes of our flesh. Santner demonstrates the ways in which democratic societies have continued many of the rituals and practices associated with kingship in displaced, distorted, and, usually, unrecognizable forms. He proposes that those strange mental activities Freud first lumped under the category of the unconscious - which often manifest themselves in peculiar physical ways - are really the uncanny second life of these royal remains, now animated in the body politic of modern neurotic subjects. Pairing Freud with Kafka, Carl Schmitt with Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Ernst Kantorowicz with Rainer Maria Rilke, Santner generates brilliant readings of multiple texts and traditions of thought en route to reconsidering the sovereign imaginary. Ultimately, "The Royal Remains" locates much of modernity-from biopolitical controversies to modernist literary experiments - in this transition from subjecthood to secular citizenship. This major new work will make a bold and original contribution to discussions of politics, psychoanalysis, and modern art and literature.
1 有用 丁萌 2013-02-19 05:59:29
神棍
3 有用 倪湛舸 2019-03-25 23:25:29
说到不知道为啥瞎红的《国王双身》,我觉得它的意义在于提供了“双身”这个范畴,而真正拿着这个范畴做分析的,还得是Eric Santner大大。这本The Royal Remains和下面的The Weight of All Flesh讲的是popular sovereignty and commodity fetishism,展现的是从国王双身到人民双身还有商品双身的转变过程,归根结底看的是是民族国... 说到不知道为啥瞎红的《国王双身》,我觉得它的意义在于提供了“双身”这个范畴,而真正拿着这个范畴做分析的,还得是Eric Santner大大。这本The Royal Remains和下面的The Weight of All Flesh讲的是popular sovereignty and commodity fetishism,展现的是从国王双身到人民双身还有商品双身的转变过程,归根结底看的是是民族国家跟消费资本主义的兴起,是政治神学里自成体系的一家,尤其是后面那本已经讨论到digital capitalism了,算是把field拓展成了政治-经济-神学,比那些做money/market as god的书要实在。还得有人考虑technological sovereignty,那就是我啦! (展开)
0 有用 尒 2019-04-12 00:08:09
我对神棍书有一种偏爱
0 有用 放弃才是一切 2015-05-04 03:41:52
很有意思。Zizek学派的political theology。
0 有用 尒 2019-04-12 00:08:09
我对神棍书有一种偏爱
3 有用 倪湛舸 2019-03-25 23:25:29
说到不知道为啥瞎红的《国王双身》,我觉得它的意义在于提供了“双身”这个范畴,而真正拿着这个范畴做分析的,还得是Eric Santner大大。这本The Royal Remains和下面的The Weight of All Flesh讲的是popular sovereignty and commodity fetishism,展现的是从国王双身到人民双身还有商品双身的转变过程,归根结底看的是是民族国... 说到不知道为啥瞎红的《国王双身》,我觉得它的意义在于提供了“双身”这个范畴,而真正拿着这个范畴做分析的,还得是Eric Santner大大。这本The Royal Remains和下面的The Weight of All Flesh讲的是popular sovereignty and commodity fetishism,展现的是从国王双身到人民双身还有商品双身的转变过程,归根结底看的是是民族国家跟消费资本主义的兴起,是政治神学里自成体系的一家,尤其是后面那本已经讨论到digital capitalism了,算是把field拓展成了政治-经济-神学,比那些做money/market as god的书要实在。还得有人考虑technological sovereignty,那就是我啦! (展开)
0 有用 放弃才是一切 2015-05-04 03:41:52
很有意思。Zizek学派的political theology。
1 有用 丁萌 2013-02-19 05:59:29
神棍