Original scientific paper
Political Animals
Nikola Visković
; Faculty of Law, University of Split, Split, Croatia
Abstract
In his analysis of the role of animals in political theory, ideology and practice, the author claims that they are mostly used as metaphors while in the world of real politics people are not considered and spoken of as animals but are treated as such as well. The text includes several motifs from the substantial, historically, well-documented, extensive topic. Political thinking in antiquity distinguishes a man from an animal, while the Renaissance and the modern political theory recognize the animality in the very politics. In contemporary politics and collective psychology there are motifs of rulers, shephards and people, of herds. In fables as a literary genre, animals serve to teach the nature of politics as well as on the proper and inproper political behaviour.
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Hrčak ID:
110656
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Publication date:
4.9.1995.
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