Corporalitate şi piaţa opiniei publice în societatea britanică a secolului al XVIII-lea
Corporeality and the Public Opinion Market in the 18th Century British Society

Summary/Abstract: My paper aims at analyzing the evolution and involution of private and public bodies from contemplatio corpus to contamino corpus through contagio or contact in the 18th Century English society, especially in “The Tatler” and” The Spectator”. From the subordination, coordination and even communication types of bodily relations, I am interested in two attitudes regarding contagio, namely: contego (lat.) > protection and expono (lat.) > exposure, exhibition, display. I am also interested in techniques of moralization and rationalization of politics and in the question of defamiliarization, bipolar and multipolar realities applied to the shift from a private “grand homme” to a collective “grand homme”. We can speak of a market of public opinion formation in private or public institutions such as publications, clubs, alehouses, coffeehouses as a an outcome of extreme power relation “games” of infection dissemination and control.

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