THE ROYAL REMAINS: THE PEOPLE’S TWO BODIES AND THE ENDGAMES OF SOVEREIGNTY
Book ID/图书代码： 15B85692
English Summary/英文概要： "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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： “国王去世了。国王万岁!”在近代早期的欧洲，国王的身体是真正的主权——国王死后，统治的权利可以立即移交给下一任君主。在《王室遗存》一书中，埃里克·桑特纳认为，主权结构和动态的“肉欲”维度并未从政治中消失。相反，它迁移到了一个新的地方——人类的生活——在那里，某种高贵的东西继续萦绕在我们痴迷地追踪和衡量我们肉体的变迁的方式中。
桑特纳展示了民主社会是如何以一种错位、扭曲、通常是无法辨认的形式，继续着许多与王权有关的仪式和实践的。他提出，弗洛伊德最初将那些奇怪的精神活动归为无意识的范畴——这些活动往往以特殊的身体方式表现出来——实际上是这些“王室遗存”不可思议的第二生命，现在活跃在现代神经病患者的身体里。桑特纳将弗洛伊德与卡夫卡、卡尔·施密特与雨果·冯·霍夫曼、恩斯特·坎托罗维茨与雷纳·玛丽亚·里尔克结合起来，对多种文本和思想传统进行了精彩的解读，进而重新思考了至高无上的想象。最终，从传记政治争议到现代主义文学实验，《王室遗存》的大部分现代性都是在从主体身份到世俗公民身份的转变过程中产生的。
这部重要的新作将对政治、精神分析、现代艺术和文学的讨论做出大胆而独到的贡献。 （WYL）
Awards/获奖情况：“ 埃里克·桑特纳的《王室遗存》脱颖而出，不仅是过去十年政治哲学方面最重要的著作，也是沃尔特·本杰明的《暴力批判》和恩斯特·坎托洛维奇的《国王的两具尸体》的经典之作。它延长了他们对当今微观政治世界的分析，提出了一个关键问题:在一个民主社会中，人民集体是新的主权者，国王的另一个崇高的机构会发生什么?我读这本书的反应是惊奇和敬畏；就好像一个新的本杰明(加上弗洛伊德和拉康的特征)正在我们中间走来走去。”——丝雷瓦·齐泽科
"Eric Santner’s The Royal Remains stands out, not only as the most important book on political philosophy of the last decade, but as a classic at the level of Walter Benjamin’s ’Critique of Violence’ or Ernst Kantorowicz’s The King’s Two Bodies. It prolongs their analyses into today’s world of micro-politics, raising the key question of what happens to the king’s other sublime body in a democratic society where the people-collectively-are the new sovereign. My reaction to reading this book is of wonder and awe; it is as if a new Benjamin (with the added features of Freud and Lacan) is walking among us." -Slavoj Zizek"
About the Author/作者介绍： 埃里克·桑特呢，是现代德语学习中心菲利普和艾达·罗伯格教授，日耳曼研究教授，芝加哥大学犹太研究中心成员。他是几本书的作者，最近一本是关于生物生活的。里尔克，本杰明，西博尔德，同样由芝加哥大学出版社出版。
Eric L. Santner is 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 On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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