{"product_id":"the-royal-remains-the-peoples-two-bodies-and-the-endgames-of-sovereignty-paperback","title":"The Royal Remains: The People's Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEric L. Santner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eThe Royal Remains\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Royal Remains\u003c\/i\u003e locates much of modernity--from biopolitical controversies to modernist literary experiments--in this transition from subjecthood to secular citizenship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This major new work will make a bold and original contribution to discussions of politics, psychoanalysis, and modern art and literature.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric L. Santner \u003c\/b\u003eis the Philip and Ida Romberg Professor in Modern Germanic Studies, professor of Germanic studies, and a member of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, most recently \u003ci\u003eOn Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by the University of Chicago Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47578652115165,"sku":"9780226735368","price":64.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/QTOakMVJe9780226735368.webp?v=1773508787","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/the-royal-remains-the-peoples-two-bodies-and-the-endgames-of-sovereignty-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}