"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 thestructures 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. PairingFreud 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.
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