Thomas Mann and the sicknesses of the body politics

The paper, presented by two political scientists specializing in voting behavior and international political theory, brings Thomas Mann’s ideas (and obsessions) about the sicknesses of the body politic before WWI to bear on political solution to the normative dilemmas of his generation. His consistent narrative of decay and medicalization becomes a metaphor of a collective struggle to pin down the motives of the decline and deterioration of the moral fabric of Mann’s world