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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
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.
body politic. Quick Reference. 1. An ideological struggle between individuals, groups, and social institutions over control of the human body. 2. Institutionalized social practices and policies through which the human body is regulated. 3.
John aims to present a model of a polity that functions on the basis of a series of interrelationships and reciprocal exchanges of duties. The body, a confined system, serves to illustrate the necessary interdependence of the members of the polity who are engaged in pursuing the public good, the health of the body politic.
