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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... social science and the humanities. Building on the heritage of classical social theory, the book series examines ways in which this tradition has been reshaped by a new generation of theorists. It also publishes theoretically informed ...
... 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.
... social sciences that we were revisioning through continental phenomenology, hermeneutics and critical theory (O'Neill, 1974; 1989). At the same time I thought it necessary to preserve the grand perspectives of the classical order ...
... am concerned with theory (theoria), I mean to respect thought's desire for formality, i.e., its wish to think its observations so as to constitute good enough sociology, with a little help from other social xii Preface.
... social sciences similarly constituted. Today, any reader in cultural studies will already have absorbed a considerable culture of body science and body folklore. The exponential take-off in our body culture within which we may locate ...
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 |