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The Weight of All Flesh
The Berkeley Tanner Lectures

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values were established by the American scholar,
industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner; they are presented annually
at nine universities in the United States and England. The University of California,
Berkeley became a permanent host of annual Tanner Lectures in the academic year
2000–2001. This work is the tenth in a series of books based on the Berkeley Tanner
Lectures. The volume includes revised and extended versions of the lectures that
Eric L. Santner presented at Berkeley in April of 2014, together with expanded
responses from the three invited commentators on that occasion—Bonnie Honig,
Peter E. Gordon, and Hent de Vries—and a final rejoinder by Professor Santner.
This volume is edited by Kevis Goodman, who also contributes an introduction.
The Berkeley Tanner Lecture Series was established in the belief that these distin-
guished lectures, together with the lively debates stimulated by their presentation
in Berkeley, deserve to be made available to a wider audience. Additional volumes
are in preparation.
Martin Jay
R. Jay Wallace
Series Editors

Volumes Published in the Series

Joseph Raz, The Practice of Value Derek Parfit, On What


Edited by R. Jay Wallace Matters: Volume 1 & 2
With Christine M. Korsgard, Robert Edited by Samuel Scheffler
Pippin, and Bernard Williams With T.M. Scanlon, Susan Wolf,
Allen Wood, and Barbara Herman
Frank Kermode, Pleasure and
Change: The Aesthetics of Canon Jeremy Waldron, Dignity, Rank,
Edited by Robert Alter and Rights
With Geoffrey Hartman, John Edited by Meir Dan-Cohen
Guillory, and Carey Perloff With Wai Chee Dimock, Don Herzog,
and Michael Rosen
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Edited by Robert Post Afterlife
With Jeremy Waldron, Bonnie Honig, Edited by Niko Kolodny
and Will Kymlicka With Susan Wolf, Harry G. Frankfurt,
and Seana Valentine Shiffrin
Axel Honneth, Reification: A New
Look at an Old Idea F. M. Kamm, The Trolley Problem
Edited by Martin Jay Mysteries
With Judith Butler, Raymond Guess, Edited by Eric Rakowski
and Jonathan Lear With Judith Jarvis Thomson, Thomas
Hurka, and Shelly Kagan
Allan Gibbard¸ Reconciling Our Aims
Edited by Barry Stroud
With Michael Bratman, John Broome,
and F.M. Kamm
The Weight of All Flesh:
On the Subject-Matter
of Political Economy
Eric L. Santner

With Commentaries by
Bonnie Honig
Peter E. Gordon
Hent de Vries

Edited and Introduction by


Kevis Goodman

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Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Contributors ix

Introduction 1
Kevis Goodman

THE WEIGHT OF ALL FLESH: ON THE


SUBJECT-MATTER OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
Eric L. Santner

Preface 23

Lecture 1: The Weight of All Flesh 43

Lecture 2: Paradoxologies 80

COMMENTS

Charged: Debt, Power, and the Politics of the Flesh in


Shakespeare’s Merchant, Melville’s Moby-Dick, and Eric
Santner’s The Weight of All Flesh 131
Bonnie Honig

Secularization, Dialectics, and Critique 183


Peter E. Gordon

The Exercise of Paradoxological Thinking 204


Hent de Vries
vi  Contents

REPLY TO THE COMMENTATORS

Idle Worship 237


Eric Santner

Index 283
Acknowledgments

A number of people have been involved in the life of this proj-


ect. I am deeply indebted to the participants in various seminars in
which my thinking on the “subject-matter of political economy”
took shape. The members of my core classes, “Self, Culture, and
Society,” in which we read Smith, Marx, and Weber together,
helped me to deepen my relationship to these thinkers. The stu-
dents in my seminar “Symbolic Economies” contributed to my
thinking about the links between Freudian and Marxist concep-
tions of value, drive, and desire. The participants in my DAAD
summer seminar, “Political Economy and Libidinal Economy in
German Culture and Thought,” were genuine collaborators in the
development of the arguments presented in this volume. I am,
finally, very grateful to the contributions made to this project by
the participants in the seminar on the history of avarice. I owe a
special debt of gratitude to my remarkable co-instructor in that
seminar, Mladen Dolar, whose work and friendship are ongo-
ing sources of inspiration for me. I also want to thank some key
interlocutors: Anna Kornbluh, Adam Kotsko, Kenneth Reinhard,
Robert Buch, Florian Klinger, Marcia Klotz, Paul Mendes-Flohr,
Moishe Postone. I am no doubt forgetting others who have in some
way or another helped me to articulate the thoughts in this volume.
I am deeply grateful to the Tanner Committee at the University of
California at Berkeley, above all Martin Jay and Jay Wallace, for
making the occasion of these lectures possible and for helping to
give it the right shape and tone. I am, of course, deeply in debt to
the three respondents to the lectures, Bonnie Honig, Peter Gordon,
and Hent de Vries, for taking the time and having the patience to
think with me even across barriers of disagreement and contesta-
tion. I am extremely grateful to Julia Lupton and John Hamilton,
viii  Acknowledgments

whose careful and critical reading of the manuscript helped to


bring it to its final form. Finally, I owe more than I can say to Kevis
Goodman, the editor of this volume; she has been a true collabora-
tor from start to finish. She has made every voice in this volume
speak more clearly and precisely. None of this—not the lectures,
not the responses, not the volume—would have come about with-
out her care and concerted efforts.
—Eric L. Santner
Contributors

Eric Santner, a leading cultural theorist and scholar of German


literature, cinema, and history, is the Philip and Ida Romberg
Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Germanic Studies at
the University of Chicago, as well as a member of the University’s
Center for Jewish Studies. He has been a visiting fellow at vari-
ous institutions, including Dartmouth, Washington University,
Cornell, and the University of Konstanz (Germany). He works at
the intersection of literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, political
theory, and religious thought.
Santner’s many publications include: Friedrich Hölderlin:
Narrative Vigilance and the Poetic Imagination (Rutgers, 1986);
Stranded Objects: Mourning, Memory, and Film in Postwar
Germany (Cornell, 1990); My Own Private Germany: Daniel
Paul Schreber’s Secret History of Modernity (Princeton, 1996);
On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud
and Rosenzweig (Chicago, 2001); On Creaturely Life: Rilke,
Benjamin, Sebald (Chicago, 2006); The Neighbor: Three Inquiries
in Political Theology (Chicago, 2006, with Slavoj Zizek and
Kenneth Reinhard); and The Royal Remains: The People’s Two
Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty (Chicago, 2011). He
edited the German Library Series volume of works by Friedrich
Hölderlin and co-edited, with Moishe Postone, Catastrophe and
Meaning: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century (Chicago,
2003). His work has been translated into German, Spanish, French,
Korean, Hebrew, Polish, Italian, and Portuguese.

Hent De Vries is the Russ Family Chair in the Humanities and the
Director of the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University,
where he is also Professor of Philosophy. He is, furthermore,
x  Contributors

the Director of the School for Criticism and Theory at Cornell


University (through 2018). He has held multiple visiting faculty
positions or research stays in Europe and the United States, includ-
ing the University of Amsterdam, where he was a co-founder
of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, the Collège de
Philosophie in Paris, Hebrew University, Princeton, Chicago,
Harvard, Brown, and elsewhere.
His principal publications include: Philosophy and the
Turn to Religion (Johns Hopkins, 1999, 2000), Religion and
Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida (Johns
Hopkins, 2002, 2006), and Minimal Theologies: Critiques of
Secular Reason in Theodor W. Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas
(Johns Hopkins, 2005). He is the co-editor, with Samuel Weber, of
Violence, Identity, and Self-Determination (Stanford, 1997) and
of Religion and Media (Stanford, 2002). He is also the co-editor,
with Lawrence E. Sullivan, of Political Theologies: Public
Religions in a Post-Secular World (Fordham, 2006), the editor of
Religion: Beyond a Concept (Fordham, 2007), and the co-editor,
with Willemien Otten and Arjo Vanderjagt, of How the West
Was Won: Essays on Literary Imagination, the Canon and the
Christian Middle Ages (Brill, 2010). He is also the co-editor, with
Ward Blanton, of Paul and the Philosophers (Fordham, 2013) and,
with Nils F. Schott, of Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World
(Columbia, 2015).
Currently de Vries is completing several book-length studies,
including a trilogy on the subject and politics of global religion in
the age of new media. He is the editor of the book series, Cultural
Memory in the Present, published by Stanford University Press.

Peter E. Gordon is the Amabel B. James Professor of History


and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University, where he is
also a Faculty Affiliate of the Department of Germanic Languages
and Literature and the Department of Philosophy. His scholar-
ship focuses on modern European intellectual history from the
Contributors  xi

late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. His primary area


of expertise is Continental Philosophy and modern German and
French thought. He has written extensively on Martin Heidegger,
phenomenology, and, most recently, secularization and social
thought in the twentieth century.
Gordon’s highly regarded first book, Rosenzweig and Heidegger:
Between Judaism and German Philosophy (2003), was awarded the
Morris D. Forkosch Prize, the Salo W. Baron Prize, the Goldstein
Goren Prize, and the Koret Foundation Publication Prize. His
most recent book on the 1929 debate between Martin Heidegger
and Ernst Cassirer, entitled Continental Divide: Heidegger,
Cassirer, Davos (Harvard, 2010), was awarded the Jacques
Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical Society in 2010.
Gordon is the co-editor of several books, including Weimar
Thought: A Contested Legacy (Princeton, 2013); The Modernist
Imagination: Intellectual History and Critical Theory (Berghahn
Books, 2008); The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish
Philosophy (Cambridge, 2007); and The Trace of God: Derrida
and Religion (Fordham, 2014). Additionally, Gordon serves on
the editorial boards for Modern Intellectual History, The Journal
of the History of Ideas, Jewish Social Studies, and New German
Critique, and he has written reviews for The New Republic and
The New York Review of Books.
Peter Gordon received his B.A. from Reed College in 1988, and
his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997.
A recipient of both an honorary Harvard College Professorship and
Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Gordon
has been on the faculty of the History Department at Harvard
University since 2000, and was appointed Amabel B. James
Professor of History in 2011. He is the co-founder and co-chair of
the Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History. He is currently
working on a new book on secularization and social thought in the
twentieth century. His newest book, forthcoming, will be entitled
Adorno and Existence: Five Lectures.
xii  Contributors

Bonnie Honig is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor in the Departments


of Modern Culture and Media (MCM) and Political Science at
Brown University. She is also Affiliated Research Professor at the
American Bar Foundation in Chicago. She works at the intersec-
tions of political theory, law, cultural studies, feminist theory, and
literary theory.
She is the author of several prizewinning books and arti-
cles, including Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy
(Princeton, 2009; co-winner of the David Easton prize) and Political
Theory and the Displacement of Politics (1993; winner of the 1994
Scripps Prize for best first book in political theory). Her most
recent book is Antigone, Interrupted (Cambridge, 2013), which
explores the politics of gender, law, grief, and the human through a
reading of Sophocles’s tragedy and its many prior interpreters. She
is currently working on a new book based on her lectures in the
Thinking Out Loud Series in Sydney, Australia, in 2013.
Bonnie Honig received her B.A. in political science from
Concordia University, Quebec, in 1980. She received her
M.S.C. with Distinction from the London School of Economics
in 1981, her M.A. in political theory from the Johns Hopkins
University in 1986, and her Ph.D., also from Johns Hopkins,
in 1989. Until 2013 she was Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of
Political Science at Northwestern University and senior research
professor at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago. Prior to
joining the faculty at Northwestern in 1997, Honig was Assistant
and Associate Professor at Harvard University. Honig has received
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the
Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and,
most recently, the American Philosophical Society.

Kevis Goodman is Associate Professor of English at the University


of California, Berkeley, where she writes about and teaches British
literature from Milton through the Romantic period. She is the
author of Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism: Poetry
Contributors  xiii

and the Mediation of History (Cambridge, 2004, 2008). Her articles


on topics in literary history and literary criticism have appeared
in several book collections, as well as in such journals as English
Literary History, Studies in Romanticism, European Romantic
Review, South Atlantic Quarterly, The Wordsworth Circle, and
others. The book she is currently completing, entitled Pathologies
of Motion, studies Enlightenment medicine and Romantic aesthetic
theory and practice, primarily in Britain, as forms of knowledge
that found overlapping ways to register and represent the historical
present unfolding in the body.
Goodman is the recipient of an American Council of Learned
Societies Fellowship for Pathologies of Motion. At Berkeley,
she has won the campus’s Distinguished Teaching Award and
Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of Graduate Student
Instructors.
The Weight of All Flesh
Introduction
Kevis Goodman

Oh! What’s the matter? What’s the matter?


—William Wordsworth, “Goody Blake and Harry Gill” (Lyrical Ballads)

Over the course of three days in April 2014, Eric L. Santner deliv-
ered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the University
of California, Berkeley. Those attending on the first day heard
Lecture 1, “On the Subject-Matter of Political Economy,” and
the first of three response papers, this one by Bonnie Honig. The
next day, Lecture 2, entitled “Paradoxologies,” was followed by
response papers from Peter Gordon and Hent de Vries. The third
day consisted of a seminar and discussion, with follow-up com-
ments from Professors Santner, Honig, Gordon, and de Vries,
as well as questions from the audience. During the months that
followed, the debates of those three days were extended by the
circulation of documents: first, Santner added a preface and
extended his two lectures into their current form in this volume
(Preface, Lecture 1, Lecture 2); these texts next went to Honig,
Gordon, and de Vries, who read them before expanding their
commentaries. These three pieces in turn went back to Santner,
who wrote the Reply to the Commentators. Although titled “In
Response,” it amounts to a third essay, for, in a pattern that has
marked his career, Santner’s retrospective gaze propels him for-
ward. The result is a sequence of mutually referring chapters
and, as I think readers of this book will discover, a remarkable
and often passionate exchange of views.1
2  Introduction

The Weight of All Flesh: On the Subject-Matter of Political


Economy is Eric Santner’s latest installment in an ongoing criti-
cal project. Positing origins is questionable business, of course,
but the project clearly took shape in Santner’s third book, My
Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber’s Secret History
of Modernity; it continued through On the Psychotheology of
Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig (2001) and
On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald (2006); and it crested
in The Royal Remains: The People’s Two Bodies and the Endgames
of Sovereignty (2011), where Santner announced the need for a
“science of the flesh,” whose theorization he continues here. Each
of these books picks up one or more threads from the previous
books, partly rehearses them, and then advances them in new
directions and with renewed impetus, in an intellectual investiga-
tion that resembles the technique of exploration that Freud called
“Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through”—a process
whose larger cultural and historical implications, beyond the treat-
ment situation, have long interested Santner and continue to do so
here. Santner takes considerable pains in this volume to orient us
in this sequence, and one does not have to know the earlier books to
be engaged by this one. Nonetheless, some background does help,
and so I want to provide a glimpse of the prehistory, within what
I am tempted to call the Santner Cycle (along the lines of such lit-
erary cycles as the Oedipus, Arthurian, and Ring Cycles), to this
scholar’s fascination with the element that he calls “the flesh.” For
when he describes it, as he will several times in the course of this
book, as a “spectral” substance that “forms at and as the unstable
jointure of the somatic and the normative dimensions of human
life” (238, emphasis added)—as the stuff that constitutes the “gap”
between our biological being and “the historical forms of life” (84)
in which human communities unfold—these formulations and
their implications have been gestating for some time.
Santner’s acute awareness of the instability of this jointure
developed in his work on the peculiarly representative case of
Introduction  3

Daniel Paul Schreber, whose Memoirs, together with Freud’s


famous study, formed the center of My Own Private Germany
and parts of On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life. Schreber’s
mental breakdown occurred at the moment when he was nomi-
nated by the Ministry of Justice to the Supreme Court of Saxony as
its Senatspräsident (presiding judge). He experienced this call not
as an elevation or authorization but as physical decomposition: in
his delusions, his body was converted into a Luder, a word whose
meanings range from “wretch” to “carrion,” the rotting flesh of an
animal.2 Santner argued that Schreber’s was a crisis of “symbolic
investiture,” the performative act that endows an individual with
a new social status within a shared space of representation—one
that, when matters progress smoothly, he can, in turn, invest his
energies in or “cathect” (Freud’s term is Besetzung, “to occupy”).
However, as Santner argued, Schreber did not “metabolize his
investiture”: the title did not fit (he did not feel addressed by it),
and as a result the citation returned in the form of an invasive exci-
tation, a disturbing mental and corporeal intensification.3 A word
(Senatspräsident), we might say, made Schreber flesh—but a flesh,
as we will see, of a very specific and peculiar kind.
Santner, who has always been sensitive to the ways in which
culture-wide crises can be registered in the most intimate core of
our being (“fantasy,” he once remarked, “can be grasped as what is
least ‘proper’ to oneself”4), followed Schreber’s own intuition that
his condition had something to do with larger historical transfor-
mations, arguing that Schreber’s symptoms were symptomatic in
the larger sense, at once reflecting and disclosing the general atten-
uation of social bonds and traditional sources of authority afflict-
ing fin de siècle Europe. Schreber’s illness, in other words, led him
into the heart of the “secret history of modernity.” Modernity’s
secret (or one of them), as Santner has argued by drawing on
Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence” in earlier work, and in
this volume on Slavoj Žižek, is the ultimate arbitrariness of the
rule of law insofar as it is founded and thereafter sustained by a
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