By M. Safouan
How is social contract ever reached, on condition that the proposal of intersubjectivity can't supply an sufficient account? an issue for psychoanalytic concept is that of the sovereign 3rd one who it sounds as if holds the stability. utilizing the query of ambiguity in language and interpretation in psychoanalysis, this e-book explores the alliance of faith and the social as they aid the sacred.
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9 Conceptualizing persons as property was fundamental to the slave system that European companies developed to support the colonial project. It is also critical to the development of modern property rights, which proceed from the claim, best expressed in the English tradition by Locke, that the right to own other things proceeds from the absolute right to own one’s self. And the academic discipline of economics itself, as it has developed out of the work of Adam Smith in the late eighteenth century, is indebted to a strong misreading of the Second Treatise as well as of Locke’s writings on money.
The drop in the value of precious metal invoked here does not con- 38 Chapter One cern a certain precious quality which it is thought of as possessing in itself, but its general power of representation. Money and wealth are to be thought of as twin masses, which necessarily correspond with one another. (182–83)20 Locke’s quotation shores up Foucault’s claim by asserting that even in spite of the tenfold increase in the quantity of silver in circulation, the “proportion” between it and other commodities remains the same.
182–83)20 Locke’s quotation shores up Foucault’s claim by asserting that even in spite of the tenfold increase in the quantity of silver in circulation, the “proportion” between it and other commodities remains the same. But it also cracks open a window that will let us see outside Foucault’s “Classical” system of correspondences. In its invocation of “the West-Indies,” which here as often in seventeenth-century English writing typically stands in for the Americas tout court, Locke’s passage is one of a number of places in this section of The Order of Things where Foucault gestures, fleetingly, elliptically, and here through citation, to the colonial horizon.