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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]
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".
Links to full text: epub,pdf (2018) Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons. Oakland, CA: Kairos/PM Press. (2018) Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women. Oakland, CA: PM Press (2020) Beyond the periphery of the skin: rethinking, remaking, reclaiming the body in contemporary capitalism. Oakland, CA: PM Press
About 60 percent of Americans across political parties think that people mostly get along, but that politics drives them apart, according to a 2021 CBS News and YouGov poll. Still, 33 percent say ...
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".
Richard Dien Winfield (born April 7, 1950) is an American philosopher and distinguished research professor of philosophy at the University of Georgia.He has been president of the Society for Systematic Philosophy, the Hegel Society of America, and the Metaphysical Society of America. [1]
In the sociology of the body, body theory is a theory that analyses the human body as an ordered or "lived-in" entity, subject to the cultural and conceptual forces of a society. It is also described as a dynamic field that involves various conceptualizations and re-significations of the body as well as its formation or transformation that ...
Keith Jenkins (1943) is a British historiographer.Jenkins studied medieval and modern history as well as political theory at The University of Nottingham. Like Hayden White and "postmodern" historiographers, Jenkins believes that any historian's output should be seen as a story.