Five Bodies: Re-figuring RelationshipsFive Bodies offers an introduction to some of the most urgent contemporary concerns within the sociology of the body. The book was first published in 1985 in the USA by Cornell University Press, and was nominated for the John Porter Award (sponsored by the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association). A path breaking book, it offered a framework for the growing field of the sociology of the body and opened up ′the body′ for sociological research. This new edition (the previous edition was published by Cornell University Press (1985) has been substantially revised and updated to address today′s issues of the body in modern life, community and politics. John O′Neill examines how embodied selves and relationships are being re-shaped and re-figured and how the embodied figures of the polity, economy and society represent the contested notions of identity, desire, wholeness and fragmentation. He focuses upon those cultural practices through which we map our macro-micro worlds: · articulating a cosmology · a body politic · a productivensumptive economy · a bio-technological frontier of human design and transplantation |
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... natural extensions of our narcissistic selves. They magnify us, and at the same time amplify the world we have ... body of desire: For capitalism is the stage in which all the excitations, all the pleasures and pains produced on the surface ...
... body without organs, one with the earth itself – this condition is overcome, by the emergence of, the dominion of, the natural and the functional. The same body, the working body, free, sovereign, poised, whose proportion, equilibrium ...
... body is, morally speaking, more than a simple object for biological study or medical practice and may in fact ... natural means; it must then build itself an instrument, and it projects thereby around itself a cultural world. (Merleau-Ponty, ...
... naturally inclined by the senses to see itself externally in the body and only with great difficulty does it come to understand itself by means of reflection. This axiom gives us the universal principle of etymology in all languages ...
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Contents
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Social Bodies | 22 |
The Body Politic | 37 |
Consumer Bodies | 54 |
Medical Bodies | 66 |
Conclusion The Future Shape of Human Beings | 79 |
Bibliography | 89 |
Index | 95 |