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17 de jun. de 2010 · ABSTRACT. This book is the first to provide a cognitive analysis of the function of biological/medical metaphors in National Socialist racist ideology and their background in historical traditions of Western political theory. Its main arguments are that the metaphor of the German nation as a body that needed to be rescued from a deadly poison ...
15 de jul. de 2017 · Drawing sources from continental philosophy, science and technology studies and world politics, this pathbreaking book challenges the body-politic on the grounds of its materiality. Just as the human body is not whole and separate from other bodies, but populated by microbes, ...
The first book to unpack our love/hate relationship with science from our country’s origins to today, The Body Politic is essential reading for science buffs and concerned citizens alike. Kirkus Reviews “Best Book of the Year” selection. Atlantic “Reference Desk” recommendation. Buy Now.
This book presents results of a large-scale experiment into interpretations of the conceptual metaphor the Nation as a Body among nearly 1,000 respondents from more than 30 linguistic and cultural ... The book provides a historical and cultural map of the traditions underlying differences in how the nation as a body – or, “the body politic
Written during the Hundred Years' War, it discusses the education and behaviour appropriate for princes, nobility and common people, so that all classes can understand their responsibilities towards society as a whole. A product of a time of civil unrest, The Book of the Body Politic offers a medieval political theory of interdependence and ...
Summary. Here begins the second part of this book, which addresses chivalrous nobles. The first chapter describes how these nobles are the arms and hands of the body politic. Having concluded speaking to princes whom we described according to Plutarch as the head of the living image of the body politic and exhorting them to a virtuous life, it ...
Theme Wheel. The “body politic” is a longstanding metaphor for the state or nation that extends back to ancient Sanskrit and Greek philosophy. (“Body” is the noun and “politic” is the adjective, so “body politic”—or “corps politique” in French—simply means “political body.”) This term compares a state to the human ...
