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 |
From inside the book
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... argument proceeds in terms of a civilizing thesis drawn from Vico's humanist The New Science ([1774] 1970) and ... argued for the institution of a civic ratio between public and private life, work, health and education which demand ...
... argued by Foucault (O'Neill, 1995). The issues here have become ever more urgent since the 1980s and 1990s with the development of the bio-state/market complex with which I close the book but not the continuing argument which will ...
... argument is at first sight far from obvious, since the body is generally regarded as something either far too intimate or else far too unruly to be the starting place for a study of the intelligent order in our public lives. It seems ...
... argue, therefore, that the ground of universal science is the world's body. It might be claimed that anthropomorphism is only faute de mieux the source of primitive peoples' cosmology. I would rather argue with Vico that the rationalist ...
... argued, therefore, that the rational class concepts are not simply a unilinear development from the first imaginative universals but that both are structural elements of an inseparable historical and social matrix. The myths of the ...
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 |