Političke životinje
Political Animals

Summary/Abstract: In his analysis of the role of animals in political theory, ideology and practice, the author claims that they are mostly used as metaphors while in the world of real politics people are not considered and spoken of as animals but are treated as such as well. The text includes several motifs from this substantial, historically well-documented, extensive topic. Political thinking in antiquity distinguishes a man from an animal, while the Renaissance and the modern political theory recognize the animality in the very politics. In contemporary theories and collective psychology there are the motifs of rulers, shephards and people, of herds. In fables as a literary genre, animals serve to teach on the nature of politics as well as on the proper and improper political behaviour.

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