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Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust

The Concept of the Body Politic

Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust( )
Author: Musolff, Andreas
Series title:Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse Ser.
ISBN:978-0-415-80119-5
Publication Date:Jun 2010
Publisher:Routledge
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $165.00
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This book is the first to provide 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. Its main arguments are 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 rather than a mere propagandistic by-product of Nazi genocidal policies culminating in the Holocaust, and that...
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