From Leviathan to Toro of Wall Street

  • Enrique Luque Baena Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_RASO.2011.v20.36274
Keywords: politics, economics, religion, metaphor, metonymy

Abstract

What is nowadays the main antagonist to the great Hobbesian metaphor? In Jakobsian terms, the Bull of Wall Street seems to be much closer to the metonymical pole than to the metaphorical one. Somebody have equated the famous bull to Leviathan in a dual sense: first, since it has come to represent the empowerment of economy, the strength of the internal recovery phase of the stock market after periodic turmoils, just as Leviathan represented both the state autonomy and its political independece from church control; and, secondly, because if the Leviathan State eventually acquired sacred attributes, the Bull has come too to be identified with the stock market and ending up beeing equally revered.

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Enrique Luque Baena, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Enrique Luque Baena, doctor en Derecho por la Universidad de Granada y Graduado en Antropología Social por la Universidad de Manchester, es catedrático en el Departamento de Antropología Social y Pensamiento Filosófico Español de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Anteriormente, fue profesor en las universidades de Granada, Complutense de Madrid y Salamanca. Ha sido también Visiting Fellow en la Universidad de Chicago. Su trabajo de campo se realiza en Granada, Cáceres y León. Investiga sobre conocimiento antropológico, antropología jurídica y política, en especial, violencia, lenguaje y comunicación políticos. Ha publicado recientemente: “De la palabra al silencio: Variaciones en el tiempo” (2002); “Historia y significación” (2003); “Autoritat i poder en la societat tradicional” (2004); “Violencia política” (2007); “La Antropología política en Andalucía” (2008); “El hábito de la muerte y los rituales de la violencia” (2008); “El fin del campesinado. Transformaciones culturales de la sociedad andaluza en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX” (2009, en col.); “Mundo rural y política” (2009); Nos-Otros: miradas antropológicas sobre la diversidad (2010, en col.); y “La sombra del baniano” (2011).

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Luque Baena E. (2011). From Leviathan to Toro of Wall Street. Revista de Antropología Social, 20, 333-346. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_RASO.2011.v20.36274
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Vol. 20 (2011): Investigación antropológica en España
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Miscelaneus

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