Life and Money: The Genealogy of the Liberal Economy and the Displacement of Politics

by Ute Tellmann

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231182260
• ISBN13: 9780231182263
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"