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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... respect for the phenomenological canniness of even the most uncanny practices. So I do not mean to overwhelm these observations in postmodern critical irony (O'Neill, 1995). When I am concerned with theory (theoria), I mean to respect ...
... respect intellectual fashion? We do not belong in our own cre– any more than God. This may seem odd but, so we are told, it is better looked upon as an exciting opportunity – supposing we survive the invitation to social and moral chaos ...
Re-figuring Relationships John O′Neill. to which we owe respect, help, and care, and for whose injuries we are responsible even in our own person. Moreover, civic society strongly sanctions the protection of bodies. Those who inflict ...
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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 |