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body politic, in Western political thought, an ancient metaphor by which a state, society, or church and its institutions are conceived of as a biological (usually human) body. As it is usually applied, the metaphor implies hierarchical leadership and a division of labour , and it carries a strong autocratic or monarchial connotation .
- Joëlle Rollo-Koster
The body politic is a polity —such as a city, realm, or state —considered metaphorically as a physical body. Historically, the sovereign is typically portrayed as the body's head, and the analogy may also be extended to other anatomical parts, as in political readings of Aesop 's fable of "The Belly and the Members".
The Body Politic 573 repudiation of the body's joy that concludes so many of Donne's erotic poems. Like Bal, who draws both on concepts from speech act theory and on testimony from rape victims to argue that rape is "hatred . . . spoken by one body into the other" (20), these nimble and passionate essayists make their arguments by
7 de abr. de 2017 · Feminist scholars have argued that the body is both socially shaped and colonized. 1 The politics of the body, different from the body politic, argues that the body itself is politically inscribed and is shaped by practices of containment and control.
10 de ago. de 2016 · Following from his use of a physiological model of social organization, John identifies maintenance of the ‘health’ of the body politic as necessary to ensuring a cooperative spirit and avoiding fragmentation. For John, the political body’s health depends on the practice of justice by the organs and members.
political praxis in relation to the current political realities. 242. Much earlier than Plato, and lost in a past woven of ancient myths, we will find the analogies between the human body and the cosmologi. cal body, the human body and the body politic. Marx, as we have seen, continues this tradition of thinking.
