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Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust: The Concept of the Body Politic - Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse 1st edition
Musolff, Andreas (University of East Anglia, UK)
Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust: The Concept of the Body Politic - Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse 1st edition
Musolff, Andreas (University of East Anglia, UK)
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 poison must be viewed as the conceptual basis.
220 pages, 9 black & white tables
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | June 9, 2010 |
ISBN13 | 9780415801195 |
Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Pages | 210 |
Dimensions | 161 × 236 × 20 mm · 496 g |
Language | English |