The Origins of Neoliberalism: Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (927 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231177771 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Dotan Leshem is senior lecturer in the department of government and political theory at the School of Political Sciences, University of Haifa.
(David Hancock Political Studies Review) . (Roger Friedland Syndicate)From this point forward, anyone investigating the place of economy in Christian theology will have to engage with Leshem’s work. (John Milbank, author of Beyond Secular Order: The Representation of Being and the Representation of the People)This dazzling book takes us on an intellectual journey of rare substance. (John Plender Times Literary Supplement)Dotan Leshem’s study is a valuable intervention in the larger project of developing a theological genealogy of the modern concepts of economy and government The singular achievement of Leshem’s study is the way it extends our understanding of how the principles of incarnation and growth are central to the way the early church develops its unique notion of oikonomia The great virtue of Leshem’s study is that it reconciles divergent approaches to the theological genealogy of economy and governm
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 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 begins with early Christian treatment of economic knowledge and the effect of this interaction on ancient politics and philosophy. Then, he proposes, a new political philo