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The Royal Remains : The People's Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty by Professor Eric L. Santner is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>"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 <i>The Royal Remains</i>, 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
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It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Professor Eric L. Santner
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226735351
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Religion, Philosophy, Religious
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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