Bureaucracy in America : reading Ryan’s budget with Agamben
The article analyses Paul Ryan’s 2013 budget proposal in conjunction with Giorgio Agamben’s The Kingdom and the Glory (2011). Agamben contends that early Christian attempts to differentiate between “the being of God and his activity” continue to structure politics today. Drawing on Agamben’s reading...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-809082020-10-07T05:18:49Z Bureaucracy in America : reading Ryan’s budget with Agamben Trigg, Christopher School of Humanities DRNTU::Humanities::Language Ryan Agamben The article analyses Paul Ryan’s 2013 budget proposal in conjunction with Giorgio Agamben’s The Kingdom and the Glory (2011). Agamben contends that early Christian attempts to differentiate between “the being of God and his activity” continue to structure politics today. Drawing on Agamben’s reading of Thomas Aquinas, I demonstrate how the argument of Ryan’s budget is not only predicated on fiscal responsibility and a moral objection to “big government” but also on a politico-theological conviction that bureaucracies of men and women should not intervene in matters best left to a free market guided by divine providence. 2019-05-10T07:48:30Z 2019-12-06T14:17:09Z 2019-05-10T07:48:30Z 2019-12-06T14:17:09Z 2015 Journal Article Trigg, C. (2015). Bureaucracy in America : reading Ryan’s budget with Agamben. Canadian Review of American Studies, 45(2), 213-237. doi:10.3138/cras.2014.012 0007-7720 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80908 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48159 10.3138/cras.2014.012 en Canadian Review of American Studies © 2015 Canadian Review of American Studies. All rights reserved. |
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The article analyses Paul Ryan’s 2013 budget proposal in conjunction with Giorgio Agamben’s The Kingdom and the Glory (2011). Agamben contends that early Christian attempts to differentiate between “the being of God and his activity” continue to structure politics today. Drawing on Agamben’s reading of Thomas Aquinas, I demonstrate how the argument of Ryan’s budget is not only predicated on fiscal responsibility and a moral objection to “big government” but also on a politico-theological conviction that bureaucracies of men and women should not intervene in matters best left to a free market guided by divine providence. |
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