Dotan Leshem
Biographic Data
| ID | 252948 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dotan Leshem |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dotan |
| FAMILY NAME | Leshem |
| SIGNATURE | LESHEM D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What Might the Ancient Christians Make of Nietzsche's Post-liberal State
The Origins of Neoliberalism
The Origins of Neoliberalism
Dotan Leshem recasts the history of the West from an economic perspective, bringing politics, philosophy, and economics closer together and revealing the significant role of Christian theology in shaping economic and political thought. He begins with early Christianity's engagement with economic knowledge and the influence of this interaction on politics and philosophy. He then follows the secularization of economics in liberal and neoliberal the…
The Distinction between the Economy and Politics in Aristotle's Thought and the Rise of the Social
At the outset of the Politics1 and of the Nicomachean Ethics,2 Aristotle declares that both texts are composed with the aim of establishing that the polis is the community in which man, as a communal creature (zoon koinonikon),3 may live happily. Aristotle not only declares that the polis is the “most supreme” of all communities because it is the community in which man, qua communal creature, may pursue the best mode of life, a pursuit which is “…
Retrospectives
Nearly every economist has at some point in the standard coursework been exposed to a brief explanation that the origin of the word "economy" can be traced back to the Greek word oikonomia, which in turn is composed of two words: oikos, which is usually translated as "household"; and nemein, which is best translated as "management and dispensation." Thus, the cursory story usually goes, the term oikonomia referred to "household management" and wh…
Embedding Agamben's Critique of Foucault
This article tackles Giorgio Agamben's critique of Michel Foucault's genealogy of governmentality in two ways: first, by presenting an alternative model of the relations between pastoral and theological economy and, second, by conducting a genealogy of the former as revealed in the state of exception, when canon law is suspended. Following the author's genealogy of oikonomia in the state of exception, he argues that politics and economy are disti…
Oikonomia Redefined
The paper argues that oikonomia was defined by the ancient Greek philosophers as a sphere in which man, when faced with excessive means, acquires a theoretical and practical prudent disposition in order to comply with his needs and so as to generate a man-made surplus that is to be found outside economy’s boundaries. In order to extricate this meaning, I focus on how the following categories are presented in ancient texts dedicated to the study o…
Oikonomia in the age of empires
The article reviews the uses of the term ‘oikonomia’ in Greek-speaking antiquity and illustrates how the term was used in all spheres of human existence and in various arts and sciences, usually denoting the prudent dispensation of the field resources. In this era the arts and sciences also received their own economies, and the term oikonomia, designating in most cases the prudent management of resources, appears in political theory, military str…
Aristotle Economizes the Market
This essay juxtaposes two senses given to the concept of “market economy”: economizing the market, as suggested by Aristotle, and marketing the economy, as suggested by modern economists. The essay argues that Aristotle identified the market as arousing excessive desires in people, and by doing so it poses a threat to the mere existence of the polis. As suggested, the solution offered by him was economizing the market by subjecting it to the mode…
The ancient art of economics
This article reviews ancient texts dedicated to the art of economics, narrating how the master was to manage his wife, slaves and things. The discourse on the economy of things focuses on defining the proper limits of wealth. The economy of the slaves included multiple technologies of classification, management and supervision that were to guide the master and the matron in their ‘use’ of slaves. The wife was a freeborn member of the polis who wa…
Embedding Agamben's Critique of Foucault
This article tackles Giorgio Agamben's critique of Michel Foucault's genealogy of governmentality in two ways: first, by presenting an alternative model of the relations between pastoral and theological economy and, second, by conducting a genealogy of the former as revealed in the state of exception, when canon law is suspended. Following the author's genealogy of oikonomia in the state of exception, he argues that politics and economy are disti…
Retrospectives
Nearly every economist has at some point in the standard coursework been exposed to a brief explanation that the origin of the word "economy" can be traced back to the Greek word oikonomia, which in turn is composed of two words: oikos, which is usually translated as "household"; and nemein, which is best translated as "management and dispensation." Thus, the cursory story usually goes, the term oikonomia referred to "household management" and wh…
The Distinction between the Economy and Politics in Aristotle's Thought and the Rise of the Social
At the outset of the Politics1 and of the Nicomachean Ethics,2 Aristotle declares that both texts are composed with the aim of establishing that the polis is the community in which man, as a communal creature (zoon koinonikon),3 may live happily. Aristotle not only declares that the polis is the “most supreme” of all communities because it is the community in which man, qua communal creature, may pursue the best mode of life, a pursuit which is “…
Oikonomia Redefined
The paper argues that oikonomia was defined by the ancient Greek philosophers as a sphere in which man, when faced with excessive means, acquires a theoretical and practical prudent disposition in order to comply with his needs and so as to generate a man-made surplus that is to be found outside economy’s boundaries. In order to extricate this meaning, I focus on how the following categories are presented in ancient texts dedicated to the study o…
Oikonomia in the age of empires
The article reviews the uses of the term ‘oikonomia’ in Greek-speaking antiquity and illustrates how the term was used in all spheres of human existence and in various arts and sciences, usually denoting the prudent dispensation of the field resources. In this era the arts and sciences also received their own economies, and the term oikonomia, designating in most cases the prudent management of resources, appears in political theory, military str…
The ancient art of economics
This article reviews ancient texts dedicated to the art of economics, narrating how the master was to manage his wife, slaves and things. The discourse on the economy of things focuses on defining the proper limits of wealth. The economy of the slaves included multiple technologies of classification, management and supervision that were to guide the master and the matron in their ‘use’ of slaves. The wife was a freeborn member of the polis who wa…
Oikonomia Redefined
The paper argues that oikonomia was defined by the ancient Greek philosophers as a sphere in which man, when faced with excessive means, acquires a theoretical and practical prudent disposition in order to comply with his needs and so as to generate a man-made surplus that is to be found outside economy’s boundaries. In order to extricate this meaning, I focus on how the following categories are presented in ancient texts dedicated to the study o…
Oikonomia in the age of empires
The article reviews the uses of the term ‘oikonomia’ in Greek-speaking antiquity and illustrates how the term was used in all spheres of human existence and in various arts and sciences, usually denoting the prudent dispensation of the field resources. In this era the arts and sciences also received their own economies, and the term oikonomia, designating in most cases the prudent management of resources, appears in political theory, military str…
Aristotle Economizes the Market
This essay juxtaposes two senses given to the concept of “market economy”: economizing the market, as suggested by Aristotle, and marketing the economy, as suggested by modern economists. The essay argues that Aristotle identified the market as arousing excessive desires in people, and by doing so it poses a threat to the mere existence of the polis. As suggested, the solution offered by him was economizing the market by subjecting it to the mode…
Embedding Agamben's Critique of Foucault
This article tackles Giorgio Agamben's critique of Michel Foucault's genealogy of governmentality in two ways: first, by presenting an alternative model of the relations between pastoral and theological economy and, second, by conducting a genealogy of the former as revealed in the state of exception, when canon law is suspended. Following the author's genealogy of oikonomia in the state of exception, he argues that politics and economy are disti…
The Origins of Neoliberalism
The Origins of Neoliberalism
Dotan Leshem recasts the history of the West from an economic perspective, bringing politics, philosophy, and economics closer together and revealing the significant role of Christian theology in shaping economic and political thought. He begins with early Christianity's engagement with economic knowledge and the influence of this interaction on politics and philosophy. He then follows the secularization of economics in liberal and neoliberal the…
The Distinction between the Economy and Politics in Aristotle's Thought and the Rise of the Social
At the outset of the Politics1 and of the Nicomachean Ethics,2 Aristotle declares that both texts are composed with the aim of establishing that the polis is the community in which man, as a communal creature (zoon koinonikon),3 may live happily. Aristotle not only declares that the polis is the “most supreme” of all communities because it is the community in which man, qua communal creature, may pursue the best mode of life, a pursuit which is “…
Retrospectives
Nearly every economist has at some point in the standard coursework been exposed to a brief explanation that the origin of the word "economy" can be traced back to the Greek word oikonomia, which in turn is composed of two words: oikos, which is usually translated as "household"; and nemein, which is best translated as "management and dispensation." Thus, the cursory story usually goes, the term oikonomia referred to "household management" and wh…
What Might the Ancient Christians Make of Nietzsche's Post-liberal State
Political science (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Neoclassical economics (4 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works)