By Dotan Leshem
ISBN-10: 0231177763
ISBN-13: 9780231177764
Dotan Leshem recasts the historical past of the West from an monetary viewpoint, bringing politics, philosophy, and the economic system nearer jointly and revealing the numerous function of Christian theology in shaping financial and political notion. He starts off with early Christian remedy of financial wisdom and the influence of this interplay on old politics and philosophy. He then follows the secularization of the economic climate in liberal and neoliberal theory.
Leshem attracts on Hannah Arendt's heritage of politics and Michel Foucault's family tree of economic climate and philosophy. He consults exegetical and apologetic tracts, homilies and eulogies, manuals and correspondence, and Church canons and creeds to track the effect of the financial system on Christian orthodoxy. in basic terms through moving the origins of modernity in overdue Antiquity, Leshem argues, do we confront the total impression of the neoliberal marketized financial system on modern societies. Then, he proposes, a brand new political philosophy that re-secularizes the economic system will take form and rework the human condition.
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35 Since Aristotle uses the noun oikonomos in his Poetics,36 one can assume that his reason for objecting to the use of the term in public speech was his wish to observe a clear demarcation line between the political and the economic spheres. This is the very same line of INTRODUCTION: ECONOMY BEFORE CHRIST 21 demarcation that Alcidamas pointedly does not observe, because of his eagerness to overstylize political speech. THE OIKONOMIA OF THOUGHT The rst to introduce the concept oikonomia into rhetorical theory was Hermagoras of Temnos of the second century .
Ignatius’s demand from the Ephesians “to receive every one whom the despot of the oikos sends on his oikonomia . . [and to] look upon the bishop even as we would upon the Lord Himself ” marks another development in the reverence of the oikonomos as bishop, who now must be treated as if he were the master himself. While oikonomia as God’s salvi c plan incarnated in Christ and oikonomos as the position of bishop can be found in Paul, the economy as a divine intervention in created world in other historical events, economy as morally questionable behavior and the economy of transcription were all added by early apologists.
As on past occasions when the economy exceeded its boundaries, the rst problem Pauline economists had to tackle was setting new boundaries. Dealing with this problem, Irenaeus followed Paul and positioned an eschatological boundary to the economy by setting its recapitulation in the fullness of the ages. Also in the spirit of Paul, he positioned a double spatial boundary so that its absolute one coincides with the limits of time and space and its relative boundary is limited by the human capacity to contain the appearances in time and space of someone who exceeds it, a God whose nature is unknowable.
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