By Elettra Stimilli, Roberto Esposito, Arianna Bove
ISBN-10: 1438464150
ISBN-13: 9781438464152
Trans. through Arianna Bove, foreword via Roberto Esposito
Max Weber s account of the increase of capitalism concerned with his idea of a Protestant ethic, valuing diligence in incomes and saving funds yet restraint in spending it. although, such person restraint is overseas to modern understandings of finance, which deal with ever-increasing intake and debt as ordinary, virtually crucial, for holding the industrial cycle of shopping for and promoting.
In The Debt of the Living, Elettra Stimilli returns to this concept of restraint as ascesis, by means of reading theological and philosophical understandings of debt drawn from various figures, together with Saint Paul, Schmitt and Agamben, Benjamin and Marx, Nietzsche and Freud, and Foucault. relevant to this research is the good judgment of revenue for revenue s sake a facet of Weber s paintings that Stimilli believes has been given inadequate recognition. Following Foucault, she identifies this because the unique mechanism of a capitalist dispositif that feeds now not on a goal-directed rationality, yet at the self-determining personality of human company. Ascesis is prime no longer since it is characterised by means of renunciation, yet as the strength of will it imposes converts the thoroughly human caliber of motion with no predetermined target right into a lack, a fault, or a kingdom of guilt: a debt that can't be settled. Stimilli argues that this lack, that's very unlikely to fill, may be visible because the foundation of the economic climate of hedonism and intake that has ruled worldwide economies in recent times and because the premise of the present economic climate of debt."
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According to anti-utilitarianism, the former is constitutive of human beings and their social realm, while what is instrumental and linked to the logic of utility allows for the emergence of the capitalist enterprise as a deviation and denaturalization of it. To identify the mechanisms that feed this enterprise, I believe it makes sense, instead, to radically rethink the role played by that which has no other end but itself. On the General Economy and Its Excess At the end of the 1940s, in collaboration with the nuclear physicist Georges Ambrosino, Georges Bataille began work on the project of an “economy on a universal scale,” which called into question the issue of the energy necessary to life.
Instead, government is the means through which politics historically unfolds in the The End in Itself of the Economic Enterprise 29 forms of instituted power, and its political-economic configuration represents the most extreme version of neoliberalism and thus fully exposes its implicit heterogeneity, and its undeniable intrinsic ungovernability. Foucault essentially plumbs the depths of the different ways of drawing together what is heterogeneous in the actual historical figures of governmentality.
The reference is to Mauss rehabilitation in philosophy by Emmanuel Lévinas and by Luc Boltanski in sociology, but especially to Jacque Derrida, who writes, in an anonymous text published in the Revue du Mauss. In his introduction to the issue of the Revue prior to the publication of Derrida’s text, Caillé also outlined his philosophical interpretation of the gift and explained the peculiar situation MAUSS found itself in, one where “from spending the first ten years critiquing, amongst other things, utilitarianism and the axiomatic of interest that permeated the social sciences, we had to start fighting a notion of the gift that was too disembodied and spiritualized [.
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