25 février 2015
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Roger Brock, « The body as a political organism in Greek thought », Presses universitaires de Rennes, ID : 10.4000/books.pur.7355
We are all familiar with the image of the body politic : the perennial affective appeal of a conception of organic unity in the state, combined with the flexibility with which it can be deployed, means that an element in political discourse which can be traced back to sixth-century BC Greece remains current today. Rather less familiar is the mirror image or inverse, the conception of the body in terms of a city or state, with which this paper is concerned. As will become evident, although one...