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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... 2 Social Bodies 3 The Body Politic 4 Consumer Bodies 5 Medical Bodies 6 Conclusion: The Future Shape of Human Beings Bibliography Index ix xi 1 9 22 37 54 66 79 89 95 List of Figures 1.1 Encyclopedic Man 2.1 Deciphering a meal Contents.
... human design and transplantation are focused upon. My argument proceeds in terms of a civilizing thesis drawn from Vico's humanist The New Science ([1774] 1970) and Freud's melancholic reflections on the figure of prosthetic 'man' in ...
... human form or character. a. Ascription of a human form and attributes to the Deity. b. Ascription of a human attribute or personality to anything impersonal or irrational. (Oxford English Dictionary) Despite the dictionary, I propose ...
... human beings cannot do without the practice of anthropomorphism. If they were to refrain from it entirely, the world would assume a character more alien than that of any deity. Therefore anthropomorphism is an essential human response ...
... human body is a communicative body whose upright posture and audiovisual articulation open up a symbolic world that enriches our experience beyond any other form of life (Grene, 1965). We never experience those aspects of the body I ...
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 |