作者:
Ernst H. Kantorowicz 出版社: Princeton University Press 副标题: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology 出版年: 1997-12-29 页数: 616 定价: USD 49.95 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9780691017044
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 sett...
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.
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.
不过，尽管我们的时代发生了恐怖的事情，就是从大到小所有的国家，统统拜服于最诡异的教义，将政治神学发挥成真正的妄想症，在许多情况下直接挑战人类和政治理性的基本原则，但是，以此推断作者乃是试图考察某些现代政治性宗教的偶像是如何生成的，就属于臆测了。
It would go much too far, however, to assume that the author felt tempted to investigate the emergence of some of the idols of modern political religions merely on account of the horrifying experience of our own time in which whole nations , the largest and the smallest, fell prey to the weirdest dogmas and in which political theologisms became genuine obsessions defying in many cases the rudiments of human and political reason. (查看原文)
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1 有用 小七 2014-01-03 12:18:37
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。
0 有用 寒岭 2016-06-05 17:22:53
我知道这个问题很重要，但我实在看不动了……
0 有用 凯豚 2018-03-01 16:37:42
什么领域icon都一样，泛神和虚无的时代
0 有用 放弃才是一切 2015-05-04 03:40:51
Footnotes也太多了。这次跳过了。下次补上。
0 有用 Bricoleur 2010-06-24 00:09:41
事实上木有读完
0 有用 Hypnos 2024-04-22 13:52:23 上海
其实到今天来说已经不算什么新意了，很多结论也被推翻，具体可以参考08年有一篇当代看本书的评述文章。但是在广义的政治史研究中重视象征如何以义理意涵表现形式的研究路径，直到今天的历史学研究中仍旧是未过时的。
0 有用 Micco_D 2024-03-16 11:04:22 北京
奠基性作品 看个intro对于概念的理解还不会太明晰；Richard ii一章以two bodies角度解读文本 清晰有力 以文本为己用
0 有用 人间惆怅客 2018-03-28 03:10:01
此書可結合Otto的隱密脈絡
0 有用 凯豚 2018-03-01 16:37:42
什么领域icon都一样，泛神和虚无的时代
2 有用 宇凡 2018-02-05 23:16:34
读得这么烂，我都不好意思标我读过