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The term body politic derives from Medieval Latin corpus politicum, which itself developed from corpus mysticum, originally designating the Catholic Church as the mystical body of Christ but extended to politics from the 11th century on in the form corpus reipublicae (mysticum), "(mystical) body of the commonwealth".
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The King's Two Bodies (subtitled, A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology) is a 1957 historical book by Ernst Kantorowicz.It concerns medieval political theology and the distinctions separating the "body natural" (a monarch's corporeal being) and the "body politic".
The Foundations of Modern Political Thought is a two-volume work of intellectual history by Quentin Skinner, published in 1978. The work traces the conceptual origins of modern politics by investigating the history of political thought in the West at the turn of the medieval and early modern periods, from the 13th to the 16th centuries.
The book is an analysis of international politics in the wake of the September 11 attacks, where Mouffe traces historical roots of liberalism and globalisation. Mouffe argues against the ambition to create political consensus, instead presenting a combative attitude as the heart of democracy.
The Body Politic was a Canadian monthly magazine, which was published from 1971 to 1987. [1] It was one of Canada's first significant gay publications, and played a prominent role in the development of the LGBT community in Canada. [1] The Body Politic was a queer, activism-based Canadian monthly magazine that published from 1971 to 1987. It ...
French translation of The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex: "L'économie politique du sexe. Transactions sur les femmes et systèmes de sexe/genre"; Cahiers du CEDREF, no. 7. Gayle S. Rubin, Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory Of the Politics of Sexuality "The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex"
Previous notions of the concept can be traced back to the Middle Ages in John of Salisbury's work Policraticus, in which the term body politic was coined and used. The term biopolitics was first used by Rudolf Kjellén, a political scientist who also coined the term geopolitics, [2] in his 1905 two-volume work The Great Powers. [6]