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20 de feb. de 2020 · This book examines imagery of the body politic in the works of Cicero and his contemporaries and explores its impact on the politics of Rome in the first century bce. Emphasis throughout is on the ideological underpinnings of such images and their uses as a means of persuasion. Chapter 1 reads the well-known fable of Menenius Agrippa as a ...
2 de dic. de 2021 · Rooted in the mindset of medieval Christendom, The Book of the Body Politic heralds the humanism of the Renaissance, highlighting classical culture and Roman civic virtues. This new edition and translation offers a faithful rendering of Christine de Pizan’s writing, as well as a thorough contextualization of her career as a political writer at the end of the Middle Ages in France.
One of the most significant treatments of the medieval body politic is found in Kantorowicz’s seminal text, The King’s Two Bodies. 79 Concentrating on the significance of the corporeal nature of the king, Kantorowicz argued that the medieval ruler possessed ‘two bodies’: the transient body-natural and the political body, which persisted from one holder of the role to the next.
18 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 ...
This book is the outcome of three days of intense confrontation among experts of various disciplines (biology, philosophy, ecology, social theory, anthropology, history of science, political science) aimed at finding a new body’s description for the Body Politic.”. Download the volume BODY POLITICS.
28 de oct. de 1994 · This is the first translation into modern English of Christine de Pizan's major political work, The Book of the Body Politic (c. 1407). Written during the Hundred Years' War by France's first female professional writer, it discusses the education and behavior appropriate for princes, nobility and common people, so that all classes can understand their responsibilities toward society as a whole.
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2 de mar. de 2020 · The Body Politic by Brian Platzer is an impactful literary fiction novel that is so relevant to our current times. Well-crafted literary fiction is in a class all its own. These are the stories that truly do resonate and cause you to reflect. The characters tend to be authentic, messy and make confusing decisions—just like we all do in real life.
