Governmentality Meets Theology: ‘The King Reigns, but He Does Not Govern’
Mitchell Dean
While this ‘extraordinary’ book appears as an intermezzo within the Homo Sacer series (Negri, 2008), it supports two fundamental theses with its own philological, epigraphic, liturgical and religious-historical research, a close reading of figures such Ernst Kantorowicz Marcel Mauss. These concern political power first articulation sovereign reign economic government and, secondly, constituted by acclamations glorification. can be approached theoretically through author’s engagement Michel Foucault’s genealogy governmentality Erik Peterson/Carl Schmitt debate on closure theology. Agamben’s reformulation his derivation liberal from theological oikonomia prove convincing. A renewed analytics politics resistance should possible, however, without recourse to project seeking deactivate all profane powers including those public bureaucracies.
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