Thinking man as body: symbolic coinage in Portugal and Spain (19th century)

Abstract

In this paper, we study the construction of the body through civility course books published in Portugal and Spain in the 19th century. The civility course books were a mechanism of power-knowledge relationship disciplinary of the rising bourgeoisie which un le as he da certain process of subjectivity. From the body a new order was set up, which raised the organic to functional and symbolic-in line with the growing bourgeois class-and guide de ach individual to establish him/herself as a moral subject, giving him/her distinction and prestige.

body; history; manuals; civility