Political Theory and the Racial OrderThe Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy. By Lawrie Balfour Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Political Ideologies. By Michael C. Dawson Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line. By Paul Gilroy The Body Politic: Foundings, Citizenship, and Difference in the American Political Imagination. By Catherine A. Holland

Polity ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 529-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Olson
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
James Baldwin ◽  
The Body ◽  
Political Imagination ◽  
Color Line ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Paul Gilroy

John of Salisbury and the medieval Roman renaissance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene O'Daly
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Third Way ◽  
John Of Salisbury

John of Salisbury (c. 1120–80) is a key figure of the twelfth-century renaissance. A student at the cosmopolitan schools of medieval Paris, an associate of Thomas Becket and an acute commentator on society and rulership, his works and letters give unique insights into the political culture of this period. This volume reassesses the influence of classical sources on John’s political writings, investigating how he accessed and used the ideas of his ancient predecessors. By looking at his quotations from and allusions to classical works, O’Daly shows that John not only borrowed the vocabulary of his classical forbears, but explicitly aligned himself with their philosophical positions. She illustrates John’s profound debt to Roman Stoicism, derived from the writings of Seneca and Cicero, and shows how he made Stoic theories on duties, virtuous rulership and moderation relevant to the medieval context. She also examines how John’s classical learning was filtered through patristic sources, arguing that this led to a unique synthesis between his political and theological views. The book places famous elements of John’s political theory - such as his model of the body-politic, his views on tyranny - in the context of the intellectual foment of the classical revival and the dramatic social changes afoot in Europe in the twelfth century. In so doing, it offers students and researchers of this period a novel investigation of how Stoicism comprises a ‘third way’ for medieval political philosophy, interacting with – and at times dominating – neo-Platonism and proto-Aristotelianism.

Fear of the Thirty Years War

Facing Fear ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lederer
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Fear Response ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the relationship between fears and crises by focusing on the Thirty Years War. It considers how the war evoked a universal fear response and highlights expressions of preexisting apocalyptic fears in the material context of a long-term crisis. It also examines universal and traditional elements in contemporary portrayals of fear aroused by the specific events of the war. During the Thirty Years War, the body politic often appeared twisted, contorted, or monstrous in form, suggesting a fearful condition affecting society as a whole. In other words, the body functioned as a repository of fear during the conflict. The chapter argues that the linchpin of the relationship between crises and fear during the Thirty Years War was their literal embodiment by contemporary political culture and a peculiar understanding of history.

“Suffer a Surrender … ? No, Never!”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Talbot
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cultural Work ◽  
Citizenship Rights ◽  
American Political Culture ◽  
Multiple Meanings

This chapter shows how anti-polygamy legislation emerged from a particular imagining of the meaning of America. The Edmunds and Edmunds-Tucker Acts of 1882 and 1887, respectively, mobilized a particular vision of the nation to drive into submission Mormonism's challenge to American political culture. Anti-Mormonism had therefore accomplished its cultural work by constituting Mormons as an un-American threat to the nation and its legal work by taking aim at the citizenship rights of Mormons. Ultimately, the controversy over polygamy helped formulate the multiple meanings of citizenship and national identity as the Mormon question became a location at which the gendered, marital, and religious limits of the body politic were tried.

Translating the Body Into Image. The Body Politic and Visual Practice at the Mughal Court During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Paragrana ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 243-266
Author(s):  
Monica Juneja
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
North India ◽  
The Political ◽  
Visual Medium ◽  
The North ◽  
Multiple Regimes ◽  
New Ideas

AbstractThis article investigates the ways in which visual representations reconfigured the body in North Indian political culture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. While images were meant to transmit and translate ethical conceptions of the polity, communicative modes of the visual medium followed a dynamic that was not a rehearsal of the path taken by texts. As images cut across distinctions formulated elsewhere and drew up new boundaries, they worked to refine and pluralise the understandings of political culture beyond the normative. Pictorial experiments at the North Indian courts involved negotiating multiple regimes of visuality and arriving at pictorial choices that ended up creating a new field of sensibilities, especially the corporeal. An argument is therefore made for the agency of the visual in defining new ideas of the political body that were constitutive of politico-ethical ideals in early modern North India.

Political relationships in context: the body politic

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene O'Daly
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Political Relationships

This chapter takes an indepth look at John’s famous metaphor of the body politic. After comparing his model to those of his contemporaries, it notes that John takes the metaphor a step further by exploiting its physiology to suit his political theory. It looks in detail at John’s alleged letter from Plutarch to Trajan, examining the offices of the polity in turn. It looks first at internal, decision-making, offices of the body politic, then at it external, active, offices, before turning to the contested relationship between the prince and priesthood, its head and its soul.

scholarly journals Reflexões sobre biopoder e pos-colonialismo: relendo Fanon e Foucault

Mana ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Color Line ◽  
Paul Gilroy

Autores como Michel Foucault e Franz Fanon têm figurado de forma influente tanto em estudos sobre questões relativas a estratégias de poder e representação em contextos pós-coloniais, quanto em debates e análises de ordem teórica sobre pós-colonialismo. Particularmente, as noções de biopoder e governamentalidade, originárias do pensamento de Foucault, e as reflexões de Fanon sobre a construção de formas de subjetivação racializadas e coloniais, têm ensejado um amplo debate sobre a permanência e circulação de retóricas raciais transnacionais. Através da leitura de David Scott, em Refashioning Futures - Criticism after Postcoloniality (1999), e Paul Gilroy, em Against Race - Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line (2000), este ensaio procura identificar a pertinência da combinação de ambos os autores em estudos que, de forma distinta, se debruçam sobre a complexa relação entre corpo e modernidade e suas implicações nos campos político e intelectual contemporâneos.

Understanding consumption as political and moral practice: Introduction to the special issue

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig J. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Moral Practice ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Racial Hierarchies

This special issue of the Journal of Consumer Culture addresses the complex intersections and interrelationships that exist among everyday consumption practices, broader ideological structures, and moralistically infused citizenship ideals. The politicized marketplace relationships (and recursive effects) that emanate from these intersections are not reducible to conventional dichotomies between the marketplace and the body politic or between consumption and civic engagement. Building upon this insight, the articles in this special issue cast new theoretical light on how political ideologies and moralistic narratives — often reproducing entrenched class, gender, and racial hierarchies — are institutionalized and contested through consumption practices.

Politicizing the Body: Property, Contract, and Rights

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moira Gatens
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Rich Source ◽  
The West ◽  
The Way

This article examines the politicization of the human body focusing on the way this issue was conceived in the West. The human body has long been used as a source of metaphor for political theorists and the very notion of body politic leans on the image of a unified and discrete entity that has commanding parts and obeying parts that may be robust or ailing, strong or weak. This article suggests that aside from political theory with a rich source of metaphor, the human body also serves as the nexus where political conceptions of the universal and the particular meet.

scholarly journals CICERO AND THE US POLITICAL CULTURE OF THE 18TH–19TH CENTURIES

2018 ◽  
pp. 62-65
Author(s):  
A. Protsiuk
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Private Property ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Body ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
Marcus Tullius Cicero ◽  
General Importance ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Impact

This article covers the role of Ancient Roman statesman and intellectual Marcus Tullius Cicero in the culture of the United States of America during the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly his influence on the formation of democracy in the US. While the recent decades have witnessed the increasing scholarly attention to the impact of Cicero on the early political culture of the US, the body of historical research, especially the Ukrainian one, lacks general analyses of Cicero’s role in the American political system during the emergence of the American state and its existence on the early stages of its history. After a general overview of the historical context of Cicero’s biography and legacy, this article pays a particular attention to his impact on the creation of United States democracy. A significant number of Cicero’s ideas, more or less, had been reflected in the concepts which defined the newly created American democracy. The most important concepts in this regard are the ideas of a republic government, private property, just laws, and forms of state structure. Apart from the general importance of Cicero’s ideas for the early American democracy, Marcus Tullius Cicero himself was a notable example for some Founding Fathers of the US, especially for the 2nd President John Adams. During the 19th century, Cicero continued to play a significant role in the American society, specially in the fields of education and public speaking.

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