Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… In Bath, sociability aimed at healing the citizen’s body together with the body politic. Places > Cities Practices > Politics & Society Mots-clés Codes Fashion Health Leisure Politeness Ritual Spa The transformation of Bath in the long … since, as explained by Lawrence Klein, politeness had a ‘moral potential’ and ‘manners were the foundations of civic politics.’ 19 The Woods designed buildings that were then unique and were later duplicated in spas and seaside-resorts: … Yet the ideal of the harmonious cohabitation of the different social classes and of the two sexes, with a concomitant politics of conflict avoidance, was seriously tarnished by the excesses of the leisure industry ( Klein, 'Politeness and …
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