Author : Ute Astrid Tellmann
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ISBN 13 : 9781109928945
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (289 download)
Book Synopsis The Economy and the Foundation of the Modern Body Politic by : Ute Astrid Tellmann
Download or read book The Economy and the Foundation of the Modern Body Politic written by Ute Astrid Tellmann and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation explores the making of the modern division between the political and the economic realm. To modern political reason, the economy appears like a self-standing reality, internally related in terms of functions and understood to follow regulating laws of its own. The dissertation counters this account of the relation between the economic and the political realm. It analyzes the epistemological claims to objectivity, on which this division rests and shows how the allegedly neutral depictions of economic necessity remain inextricably linked to political imaginations of order. The main thesis of the work posits that the modern rendering of economic reality in terms of a self-contained and functional realm stems from the desire to establish secure foundations for a viable body politic.