'Commune Profit' and Libidinal Dissemination in Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Takada, Yasunari.
'Commune Profit' and Libidinal Dissemination in Chaucer
- Published
- Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. The Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature (Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1999), pp. 107-21.
- Description
- Argues that Jürgen Habermas's concept of the "public sphere" shares features with Chaucer's notion of "commune profit" in PF. Both concepts suggest or insist that the political body must be open and generative, cognizant of the physical as well as the intellectual or spiritual.
- Alternative Title
- Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.