Metaphor, nation and the holocaust
Subtitle: the concept of the body politic
By: by Andreas Musolff.
Series: Routledge critical studies in discourse -- 3
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780415801195
Subjects: Discourse analysis -- Political aspects; Metaphor; Analogy; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: 1. Introduction: Deadly metaphors that won't die: Bodies and parasites as concepts of political discourse; title: Part I. 2. The cognitive import of metaphor in Nazi ideology; title: 3. Body, nature and disease as political categories in Mein Kampf; title: 4. The public presentation and reception of anti-semitic imagery in Nazi Germany; title: 5. Methodological reflection: body and illness metaphors in the evolution of Western political thought and discourse; title: Part II. 6. Solidarity and hierarchy: the state-body metaphor in the Middle Ages; title: 7. Concepts of healing the body politic in the Renaissance; title: 8. From political anatomy to social pathology: modern scenarios of the body politic and its therapy; title: 9. German conceptual and discursive traditions of the body politic metaphor; title: 10. Conclusion: Metaphor in discourse history; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.