UID:
kobvindex_INT0001742
Format:
xi, 230 pages
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illustrations
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23 x 15.5 cm
Edition:
Reprint
ISBN:
9780231177764
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9780231177771
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0231177763
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0231177771
Content:
"Dotan Leshem recasts the history of the West from an economic perspective, bringing politics, philosophy, and the economy closer together and revealing the significant role of Christian theology in shaping economic and political thought. He begins with early Christian treatment of economic knowledge and the effect of this interaction on ancient politics and philosophy. He then follows the secularization of the economy in liberal and neoliberal theory. Leshem draws on Hannah Arendt's history of politics and Michel Foucault's genealogy of economy and philosophy. He consults exegetical and apologetic tracts, homilies and eulogies, manuals and correspondence, and Church canons and creeds to trace the influence of the economy on Christian orthodoxy. Only by relocating the origins of modernity in Late Antiquity, Leshem argues, can we confront the full effect of the neoliberal marketized economy on contemporary societies. Then, he proposes, a new political philosophy that re-secularizes the economy will take shape and transform the human condition."
Note:
EDITORIAL NOTE: hardback edition published 2016, paperback edition published 2017
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Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION: ECONOMY BEFORE CHRIST : The Three-Dimensional Human ; Philological History of Oikonomia ; The Archives of Genealogical Inquiry Into the Marketized Economy: Arendt, Foucault, Agamben ; Toward a New Political Philosophy: An Ethical Economy ; Plan of the Book ; A Brief History of Pre-Christian Economy -- FROM OIKOS TO ECCLESIA : Oikonomia in Scripture ; The Apostolic Fathers and the Early Apologists: Justin Martyr, Tatian, Ignatius, Athenagoras, Theophilus of Antioch ; Later Apologists: Irenaeus, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria ; Economy Changes the Conception of Time, Space, and the Concept of History -- MODELING THE ECONOMY : Economic Models ; The First Economic Model ; Perichoresis in the Ontological Communion ; The Archaic Transcription: The Transcript Is of the Same Nature as the Origin ; The Second Economic Model: The Hypostatic Union in the Economy of the Incarnation ; The Third Economic Model: Christomimesis ; Afterword: Trial Balance of Oikonomia in the Three Moments of Greek Antiquity -- ECONOMY AND PHILOSOPHY : The Hermeneutics of the Subject ; Platonic Self-knowledge ; Origen ; Change in the Human Condition: Economy and Theology Are Set Apart ; Gregory of Nyssa's Economy of Growth ; Unlimited Economic Growth -- ECONOMY AND POLITICS : Thinking of the Political Prior to the Christianization of the Empire ; Following the Baptism of Constantine ; John Chrysostom ; The Distinction Between Economy and Politics as Mirrored by the Models -- ECONOMY AND THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK : The Two Paradigms ; The Christological Origins of Pastoral Economy in the State of Exception ; A Genealogy of the Principle of Economy ; Salvation, Truth, and Law ; Economic Pastorship and Political Sovereignty in the Exception ; The Modern Power of Exclusive Inclusion -- FROM ECCLESIASTICAL TO MARKET ECONOMY : A Condensed History of Oikonomia in Greek-Speaking Antiquity ; A Genealogical Inquiry Into the Neoliberal Marketized Economy ; A Condensed History of Economic Growth ; Comparative Politics ; Economic Ethics: Practicing Freedom as a Governed Subject -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Language:
English