Choroba jako obcy w metaforze ciała politycznego. Rozwój strategii kooptacji i adaptacji „chorego” elementu społecznego — analiza na podstawie tekstów kultury anglosaskiej XVII i XXI wieku
Disease as the Other in the body politic metaphor. Development of co‑optation and adaptation strategies, as found in select Anglo‑American works from 17th and 21st centuries

Author(s): Maciej Paprocki
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The article follows and develops Archambaults’ statement that the body politic was not “an inert, neutral literary topos,” but rather “[one] capable of betraying certain political inclinations”. Accordingly, the author presents how in the 17th and 20th centuries the body politic paradigm struggled to encompass the experience of disease and in which way the Anglo‑American political discourse attempted to homogenise the social stratum associated with disease, that is, the silenced and excluded ones. The main point of the author is that the homogenising body politic discourse fails to address the needs of a pluralistic society; hence, it is being replaced with social designs more welcoming to seemingly discordant forces within contemporary society.

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