Baruch Menache
What makes something truly political-and why do societies so easily mistake metaphors for reality?Contemporary Politic is a groundbreaking exploration of the hidden forces that shape political life. Rather than treating politics as a set of institutions, ideologies, or daily headlines, Baruch Menache uncovers the deeper structures that make political experience possible in the first place. He reveals how contention, metaphor, and sociality form the invisible architecture that governs both individuals and nations.Drawing on political psychology, philosophy, and structural analysis, Menache guides readers through the layers of political existence-how cities become embodied symbols, how states become simulations, and how public space is quietly domesticated. He exposes how political metaphors expand, distort, or reshape our perception of reality, and how individuals internalize political constructs as part of their own emotional and social identity.This book is not a commentary on current events. It is a structural inquiry into the political itself:• What allows political life to arise?• What sustains it across time and culture?• How does it embed itself into the way people think, feel, and organize their world?With clarity and philosophical depth, Menache reveals how political systems function as metaphorical organisms-ones that shape consciousness, govern behavior, and bind societies together in ways often unnoticed.For readers of political theory, philosophy, sociology, and political psychology, Contemporary Politic offers a transformative way to understand the myths, metaphors, and structures that define our experience of the political world.
