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- An American Body | Politic: A Deleuzian Approach
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Dartmouth College Press
- Series: Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies
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A reflection on the metaphor of the body politic throughout American history
Bernd Herzogenrath’s An American Body|Politic is a study of the intersection between the material, biological body and body as political and cultural metaphor in American politics, religion, literature, and popular culture. Deeply influenced by the thought of Gilles Deleuze, Herzogenrath’s approach to American culture encompasses endless possibilities and potentials, eschewing the mechanic and structural. He traipses through American history and culture, pausing to examine such varied facets as the Puritans’ “two bodies,” Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian Controversy, Cotton Mather and smallpox, the poetics|politics of Whitman, Henry Adams’s stroll along the shores of complexity, and the Detroit-based techno music of today.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-vi
- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-19
- 0, Body, Theory, Politic
- pp. 20-53
- 1. The Puritans’ Two Bodies
- pp. 54-91
- Conclusion
- pp. 253-258
- Bibliography
- pp. 285-312
Additional Information
ISBN
9781584659426
Related ISBN(s)
9781584659327
MARC Record
OCLC
712993432
Pages
336
Launched on MUSE
2012-07-18
Language
English
Open Access
Yes