9 May 2019
PRIVACY Postdoc Anna Becker will give paper at Stockhom Philosophy Colloquium
The title for Anna Beckers paper for the Colluquium is: "Politics that matters: Bodies and the material in the history of early modern political thought”.
Abstract
Does the body do anything in the history of political thought? Motivated by the quest of understanding how our modern abstract idea of the state came into being, historians of political thought have not fully explored the material and bodily implications of early modern thinking. Turning up-side-down a common focus in the history of political thought, in this talk I favour flesh over thought, body over artifice, and the concrete over the abstract. Bringing politics in the realm of the tangible in this way, I shall show, can help us probe purported boundaries between the political and the apolitical, the public and private, the male and female and can so help us rethink what politics was seen to be in early modern thought.