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Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust : the Concept of the Body Politic.
Presents a cognitive analysis of the function of biological/medical metaphors in National Socialist racist ideology and their background in historical traditions of Western political theory. This book argues that the metaphor of the German nation as a body that needed to be rescued from a deadly poi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2010.
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| Colección: | Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse, v. 3.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Deadly Metaphors That Won't Die? Bodies and Parasites as Concepts of Political Discourse; Part I; 2 The Cognitive Import of Metaphor in Nazi Ideology; 3 Body, Nature and Disease as Political Categories in Mein Kampf; 4 The Public Presentation and Reception of Anti-Semitic Imagery in Nazi Germany; 5 Methodological Reflection: Body and Illness Metaphors in the Evolution of Western Political Thought and Discourse; Part II; 6 Solidarity and Hierarchy: The Body-State Metaphor in the Middle Ages.
- 7 Concepts of Healing the Body Politic in the Renaissance8 From Political Anatomy to Social Pathology: Modern Scenarios of the Body Politic and Its Therapy; 9 German Conceptual and Discursive Traditions of the Body Politic Metaphor; 10 Conclusion: Metaphor in Discourse History; Notes; Bibliography; Index.