2012, ISBN: 9780226735344

The People's Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), &quote;The king is dead. Long live the king!&quote; In early modern Europe, the king's body… More...

The People's Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), &quote;The king is dead. Long live the king!&quote; 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 the &quote;carnal&quote; dimension of the structures and dynamics of sovereignty hasn't disappeared from politics. Instead, it 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.&nbsp;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 &quote;royal remains,&quote; 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.&nbsp;This major new work will make a bold and original contribution to discussions of politics, psychoanalysis, and modern art and literature. [PU: University of Chicago Press], Seiten: 288, University of Chicago Press, 2012<

ISBN: 9780226735344

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… More...

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 the carnal dimension of the structures and dynamics of sovereignty hasn't disappeared from politics. Instead, it 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. Digital Content>E-books>Religion,Inspiration>Religion>Comparative REL, University of Chicago Press Digital >16<

ISBN: 9780226735344

"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 upo… More...

"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, "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, University of Chicago Press<

2012, ISBN: 9780226735344

The People's Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), [PU: University of Chicago Press], University of Chicago Press, 2012

ISBN: 9780226735344

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