{"id":10677,"date":"2026-06-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10677"},"modified":"2025-12-14T17:21:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:21:56","slug":"looking-at-eric-santners-book-2016-the-weight-of-all-flesh-part-26-of-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10677","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Eric Santner\u2019s Book (2016)\u00a0The Weight of All Flesh\u00a0(Part 26 of 28)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0516 Okay,&nbsp;<em>the passive soul of the citizen<\/em>&nbsp;lacks&nbsp;<em>a certain quality<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Something<\/em>&nbsp;will fill that lack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If&nbsp;<em>something<\/em>&nbsp;conforms to mercantilism, then the citizen<sup>regular<\/sup>&nbsp;gains the quality of rationality, then the person is sane and enters the organization tier.&nbsp;&nbsp;The resulting behaviors are capitalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, capitalism is 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life<\/em>&nbsp;recapitulate, in the organization tier,&nbsp;<em>the doxologies of the Christian faith on the society tier<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why the Christian faith?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The perspective level<\/em>&nbsp;is revealed only with&nbsp;<em>Christian faith<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0519 Here is how that happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide69.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide69.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide69.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide69-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0520 Does this explain why Santner and Agamben regard&nbsp;<em>the Christian formulation of the Trinity<\/em>&nbsp;as the foundation of both&nbsp;<em>the political theology of the dual body king<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>the Marxist projection of a political theology onto the organization tier?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0521 Even if you say, \u201cNo.\u201d, the suggestion that Marxism contextualizes the organization tier carries intellectual momentum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0522 The following shows a number of Marxist terms contextualizing the organization tier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide70.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide70.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide70.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide70-300x225.png 300w\" 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