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SUMMARY:The Sovereign's Body: Metaphors of the Third between Politics and 
 Religion
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DESCRIPTION:David Atwood (ZRWP\, Zürich)\n\n"The Sovereign's Body: Metaph
 ors of the Third between Politics and Religion"\n\nThe metaphor of the sov
 ereign’s body—whether embodied by the king or the people—has persist
 ed in Western thought for centuries. Historian Ernst Kantorowicz famously 
 distinguished between two aspects of the king's body: the "body natural" a
 nd the sublime\, eternal "body politic." While his work has profoundly inf
 luenced scholarship on medieval and early modern sovereignty\, questions r
 emain regarding the continuity of the "body politic" in the context of mod
 ern sovereignty. This paper addresses these questions by exploring the con
 cept of a "Third" within this metaphorical framework. Drawing on Lacanian 
 psychoanalysis and cultural studies\, and synthesizing insights from Pierr
 e Legendre and Eric Santner\, this analysis proposes a new perspective on 
 the "Third" as a bridge between politics and religion.
LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/the-sovereigns-body-metaphors-of-the-th
 ird-between/
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