Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust: The Concept of the Body Politic: 1 (Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse)

by Andreas Musolff (Author)

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  2010

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  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.