Do Crowds Need Leaders?: Representing the Body Politic after the Decline of Monarchy in Western Europe, from Hobbes to Durkheim
The Political Imaginarium, which is the topic of this special issue, is not static. Older modes of representing the body politic, as illustrated by Ernst Kantorowicz’s account of the King’s Two Bodies, were focused on the figure of the monarch. With the transition to democratic republics based on po...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2023
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Political theology
Jahr: 2023, Band: 24, Heft: 1, Seiten: 15-34 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
England
/ Frankreich
/ Repräsentation (Politik)
/ König
/ Führung
/ Geschichte 1650-1900
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| IxTheo Notationen: | KBF Britische Inseln KBG Frankreich NCD Politische Ethik TJ Neuzeit |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Totemism
B Democracy B Monarchy B Representation B Thomas Hobbes B Iconoclasm B Émile Durkheim |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The Political Imaginarium, which is the topic of this special issue, is not static. Older modes of representing the body politic, as illustrated by Ernst Kantorowicz’s account of the King’s Two Bodies, were focused on the figure of the monarch. With the transition to democratic republics based on popular sovereignty, was this older aesthetic of sovereignty abandoned, extended, or transformed? I argue that the shift to focus on the People represented only a partial break with older modes of representation, due to the difficulty of figuring the masses as such in their unformed condition. Case studies from England and France suggest that the problem of representation remains without a final solution. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2022.2152180 |