The King's Two Bodies

Ernst H. Kantorowicz taught at the University of California, Berkeley and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. His books include Frederick the Second and Selected Studies.

出版者:Princeton University Press

作者:Ernst H. Kantorowicz

页数:616

出版时间:1997-12-29

价格:USD 49.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780691017044

图书标签:政治哲学中世纪政治学思想史历史Kantorowicz政治神学国王的两个身体

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In 1957 Ernst Kantorowicz published a book that would be the guide for generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. In The King's Two Bodies, Kantorowicz traces the historical problem posed by the "King's two bodies"--the body politic and the body natural--back to the Middle Ages and demonstrates, by placing the concept in its proper setting of medieval thought and political theory, how the early-modern Western monarchies gradually began to develop a "political theology."

The king's natural body has physical attributes, suffers, and dies, naturally, as do all humans; but the king's other body, the spiritual body, transcends the earthly and serves as a symbol of his office as majesty with the divine right to rule. The notion of the two bodies allowed for the continuity of monarchy even when the monarch died, as summed up in the formulation "The king is dead. Long live the king."

Bringing together liturgical works, images, and polemical material, The King's Two Bodies explores the long Christian past behind this "political theology." It provides a subtle history of how commonwealths developed symbolic means for establishing their sovereignty and, with such means, began to establish early forms of the nation-state.

Kantorowicz fled Nazi Germany in 1938, after refusing to sign a Nazi loyalty oath, and settled in the United States. While teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, he once again refused to sign an oath of allegiance, this one designed to identify Communist Party sympathizers. He resigned as a result of the controversy and moved to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he remained for the rest of his life, and where he wrote The King's Two Bodies.

用户评价

从第三部分开始很多章节都只得草草翻过了，以后重读。分析文本和图像的段落太值得学习，对莎翁政治剧和aachen手抄本封页图像的解剖真是信手拈来！

主要从分析作为法人的Crown与作为人身个人的国王之不同这点入手，阐释了中世纪西欧王权观念的兴衰史，分析了王权如何从罗马帝国皇帝全权到教皇权威，再到封建王权，最后到文艺复兴时期绝对主义君主制崛起的过程。在某种程度上，它依然从属于英国例外论的论述范畴，只是坎特诺维奇已经将英国例外论同整个欧洲背景联系起来。读之益处多多。凭国内学人的知识背景，没有两个人能真正把这本书读懂，要翻好更是难上加难。

读得这么烂，我都不好意思标我读过

还差最后两章没有读完。。。当然也就大概得到了个印象。。

还差最后两章没有读完。。。当然也就大概得到了个印象。。