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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... practices through which we map our macro–micro worlds, articulating a cosmology, a body politic, a commensal society, a ... practice which remains a civilizing source as we explore futuristic inner and outer worlds. Five Bodies is also ...
... practices. My perspective on embodied society is achieved through an historical and structural approach characteristic of classical studies, anthropology and Hegelian/Marxist sociology (O'Neill, 1982c; 1996). This obliges me to look for ...
... practice guarantees that the present offering can only hope to strike a chord here and there with those who still work towards a future that exceeds the grasp of our greedy present. Introduction The Prosthetic God We love to wear ...
... practices within the realm of the biopolitical. Thus, we are concerned with how it is that in modern society we are devising a technology for rewriting the genetic code much as savage societies once rewrote the flesh – but in a ...
... 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; it is a creative force in the civic ...
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 |