عنوان

Exploring Bodily and Spatial Rhetoric in the De Opificio Dei of Lactantius

شماره

LA126607

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Exploring Bodily and Spatial Rhetoric in the De Opificio Dei of Lactantius

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Johannes N. Vorster

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

In the construction of spatiality, "partitioning" (as Foucault would have it), or the formation of the "enclosure," allows not only for the production of an object of knowledge, but prompted by the regulative procedures of a social order, also invests spaces with an almost inherent valorisation. The relations of power active in the production of demarcated space, not only allows for the disciplined production of knowledge within the boundaries of the enclosure, but it also enacts the principle of hierarchy, rendering some parts of more value than others, evoking reasons for boundaries, evaluating types of movement and mobility, thereby reproducing social order. How a version of an interior body was embedded within a rhetoric of spatiality in antiquity is the objective of this essay. The point of departure is not a pre-discursive interior body upon which a rhetoric of spatiality has been inscribed, but an already rhetorically constructed object of knowledge in interaction with a rhetoric of spatiality. Besides exploring the interaction of bodily and spatial rhetoric with reference to specific prominent issues in the Dei Opificio Dei of Lactantius, the question whether a version of Roman masculinity tropologically functions as proposal for the construction of social order is also posed. In the construction of spatiality, "partitioning" (as Foucault would have it), or the formation of the "enclosure," allows not only for the production of an object of knowledge, but prompted by the regulative procedures of a social order, also invests spaces with an almost inherent valorisation. The relations of power active in the production of demarcated space, not only allows for the disciplined production of knowledge within the boundaries of the enclosure, but it also enacts the principle of hierarchy, rendering some parts of more value than others, evoking reasons for boundaries, evaluating types of movement and mobility, thereby reproducing social order. How a version of an interior body was embedded within a rhetoric of spatiality in antiquity is the objective of this essay. The point of departure is not a pre-discursive interior body upon which a rhetoric of spatiality has been inscribed, but an already rhetorically constructed object of knowledge in interaction with a rhetoric of spatiality. Besides exploring the interaction of bodily and spatial rhetoric with reference to specific prominent issues in the Dei Opificio Dei of Lactantius, the question whether a version of Roman masculinity tropologically functions as proposal for the construction of social order is also posed.

تاريخ نشر

2015

توصيف ظاهري

250-274

عنوان

Religion and Theology

شماره جلد

22/3-4

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1574-3012

اصطلاح موضوعی

De Opificio Dei

اصطلاح موضوعی

Lactantius

اصطلاح موضوعی

rhetoric of body

اصطلاح موضوعی

rhetoric of spatiality

اصطلاح موضوعی

Roman body

اصطلاح موضوعی

Roman masculinity

اصطلاح موضوعی

Roman social hierarchy

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Johannes N. Vorster

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15743012-02203009

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y