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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 ".
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.
10. Aug. 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. This association ...
1. Jan. 2013 · This tradition, often discussed under the heading of body politic, derives already from ancient Greek philosophy, particularly, from Plato and Aristotle who both rely on the analogy between the community ( polis) and the human body in their “political” writings.
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.
Here, in these texts, in the material and political, and political and material with the operations of language. In ways that didn't seem early 1980s, these supposed enemies have come into alliance derstanding the always contested and consequential language and the body politic.
29. Okt. 2021 · First, bodies are used to legitimize the political order; second, they serve to determine political subjectivity; and third, body politics define politics. The text aims to highlight how a body-theoretical perspective that does not define the body as prepolitical but rather as a political construct is able to expand the scope of political theory.
