Life and Money : : The Genealogy of the Liberal Economy and the Displacement of Politics / / Ute Astrid Tellmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Tellmann, Ute Astrid,
• MitwirkendeR: Howard, Dick,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Life and Money uncovers the contentious history of the boundary between economy and politics in liberalism. Ute Tellmann traces the shifting ontologies for defining economic necessity. She argues that our understanding of the malleability of economic relations has been displaced by colonial hierarchies of civilization and the biopolitics of the nation. Bringing economics into conversation with political theory, cultural economy, postcolonial thought, and history, Tellmann gives a radically novel interpretation of scarcity and money in terms of materiality, temporality, and affect.The book investigates the conceptual shifts regarding economic order during two moments of profound crisis in the history of liberalism. In the wake of the French Revolution, Thomas Robert Malthus's notion of population linked liberalism to a sense of economic necessity that stands counter to political promises of equality. During the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes's writings on money proved crucial for the invention of macroeconomic theory and signaled the birth of the managed economy. Both periods, Tellmann shows, entail a displacement of the malleability of the economic. By tracing this conceptual history, Life and Money opens up liberalism, including our neoliberal present, to a new sense of economic and political possibility.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: The Economic and the Genealogy of Liberalism -- Part I. Life -- 1. The Invention of Economic Necessity -- 2. Savage Life, Scarcity, and the Economic -- 3. The Right to Live: Economic Man, His Wife, and His Fears -- Part II. Money -- 4. The Return of the Political and the Cultural Critique of Economy -- 5. The Economic Unbound: Material Temporalities of Money -- 6. The Archipolitics of Macroeconomics -- Epilogue: Critical Effects -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index