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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 is a metaphor for a state, society, or church and its institutions as a biological body. Learn how this metaphor originated in ancient Greece and Rome, evolved in Christianity, and influenced political theory and practice.
- Joëlle Rollo-Koster
9 mag 2024 · Troubling eugenicist ideas appeared alongside calls for liberty and equality in the works of Enlightenment thinkers. In 18th-century Europe, scholars and political theorists produced reams of texts advocating “toleration, equality, liberty, cosmopolitanism, and natural rights” alongside works defining hierarchical categories ...
Adalaide Morris reviews four books that explore the intersection between literature and the human body in different historical and cultural contexts. She argues that these books demonstrate how the body is a site of materialization, representation, and political contestation.
7 apr 2017 · The theme of body politics directs our attention to how bodies are included or excluded in the polity. How do governments respond to the political demands of bodies that transgress normative boundaries?
The term body politics refers to the practices and policies through which powers of society regulate the human body, as well as the struggle over the degree of individual and social control of the body.
18 nov 2023 · Descartes’ application of mind-body dualism to the question of courage marks the early modern era, a position later echoed in Montesquieu’s climate-based perspective on the same topic. Étienne de La Boétie and Bernard Mandeville shift the focus...
