The Royal Remains

The Royal Remains
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 286
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ISBN-10 : 9780226735344
ISBN-13 : 0226735346
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Book Synopsis The Royal Remains by : Eric L. Santner

Download or read book The Royal Remains written by Eric L. Santner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Proceedings and transactions of the Royal Society of Canada

Proceedings and transactions of the Royal Society of Canada
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Total Pages : 1062
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ISBN-10 : BSB:BSB11788373
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
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Total Pages : 646
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015035449845
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Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh ...

Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh ...
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Total Pages : 638
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951D00453840A
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Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh ... written by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects
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Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : PRNC:32101067663896
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Download or read book Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
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Total Pages : 428
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ISBN-10 : BSB:BSB11544421
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Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Gentleman's Magazine

The Gentleman's Magazine
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Total Pages : 666
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ISBN-10 : SRLF:AA0001699271
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Download or read book The Gentleman's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: