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Dotan Leshem's important book makes a very powerful and original contribution to an increasingly significant discussion across different disciplines. Its consistency, erudition, and relevance for contemporary research into the 'theological' genealogy of economy and government is impressive indeed. -- tienne Balibar, author of Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy In my opinion, this work is the most significant text so far in the field of what has come to be termed 'political theology.' Through his wide-ranging and careful scholarship, Leshem shows the extent to which a theological, biblically based dimension totally altered the operative categories of political virtue. -- John Milbank, author of Beyond Secular Order: The Representation of Being and the Representation of the People This dazzling book takes us on an intellectual journey of rare substance. It demonstrates that our current predicament-the dominance of economic 'rationality,' the imperatives of growth-is at once newer and older, narrower and broader, than we have been taught. This is a humbling and teaching book that will change, that must change, the way we conceive of the economic in its relation to the political, the philosophical, and the theological. An economist and a philosopher, Leshem writes with masterful intensity and compellingly calls for an extraordinary transformation, for an 'ethical economy,' for nothing less than a new political philosophy. -- Gil Anidjar, author of Blood: A Critique of Christianity The Origins of Neoliberalism demonstrates that histories of economic thought can no longer ignore pre-modernity and that political economy owes more to theological rationality than its modern exponents are willing to avow. Marx & Philosophy Review of Books

Leshem's important book makes a very powerful and original contribution to an increasingly significant discussion across different disciplines. Its consistency, erudition, and relevance for contemporary research into the theological genealogy of economy and government is impressive indeed. -- tienne Balibar, Professor Emeritus of Moral and Political Philosophy, Universit de Paris-Ouest Nanterre (France) and Visiting Professor, Columbia University

Leshem's important book makes a very powerful and original contribution to an increasingly significant discussion across different disciplines. Its consistency, erudition, and relevance for contemporary research into the theological genealogy of economy and government is impressive indeed. -- tienne Balibar, Professor Emeritus of Moral and Political Philosophy, Universit de Paris-Ouest Nanterre (France) and Visiting Professor, Columbia University In my opinion this work is the most significant text so far in the field of what has come to be termed 'political theology.' Through his wide-ranging and careful scholarship, Leshem shows the extent to which a theological, Biblically-based dimension totally altered the operative categories of political virtue. -- John Milbank, author of Beyond Secular Order: The Representation of Being and the Representation of the People This dazzling book takes us on an intellectual journey of rare substance. It demonstrates that our current predicament - the dominance of economic rationality, the imperatives of growth - is at once newer and older, narrower and broader, than we have been taught. This is a humbling and teaching book that will change, that must change, the way we conceive of the economic in its relation to the political, the philosophical, the theological. An economist and a philosopher, Dotan Leshem writes with masterful intensity and compellingly calls for an extraordinary transformation, for an ethical economy, for nothing less than a new political philosophy. -- Gil Anidjar, author of Blood: A Critique of Christianity

Leshem's important book makes a very powerful and original contribution to an increasingly significant discussion across different disciplines. Its consistency, erudition, and relevance for contemporary research into the theological genealogy of economy and government is impressive indeed. -- tienne Balibar, Professor Emeritus of Moral and Political Philosophy, Universit de Paris-Ouest Nanterre (France) and Visiting Professor, Columbia University Dotan Leshem provides the most accurate and insightful account so far given of the Christian genealogy of the modern dominance of economics. His work is therefore of overwhelming significance. -- John Milbank, Research Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Politics, University of Nottingham This dazzling book takes us on an intellectual journey of rare substance. It demonstrates that our current predicament - the dominance of economic rationality, the imperatives of growth - is at once newer and older, narrower and broader, than we have been taught. This is a humbling and teaching book that will change, that must change, the way we conceive of the economic in its relation to the political, the philosophical, the theological. An economist and a philosopher, Dotan Leshem writes with masterful intensity and compellingly calls for an extraordinary transformation, for an ethical economy, for nothing less than a new political philosophy. -- Gil Anidjar, author of Blood: A Critique of Christianity

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Dotan Leshem is senior lecturer in the department of government and political theory at the School of Political Sciences, University of Haifa.

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