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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... thought it necessary to preserve the grand perspectives of the classical order problem – moving from cosmological societies to Judeo-Christian society, into the industrialized orders of work, consumption, life and death that ...
... thought of as biotechnologies. This move is intended as a deconstructive strategy – a deliberate 'misreading', if you will – whose aim is to bring biotechnology as a series of specific biological and medical engineering practices within ...
... thought that the body is a physical object like other objects that surround us. As such, our physical body can be bumped into, knocked over, crushed, and destroyed. Yet, even as we say this, our language is estranged or alienated from ...
... thought. I do not mean to reject nonanthropocentric science. Rather, my purpose is to keep alive the ground from which science starts and to which its promise is beholden. I shall argue, therefore, that the ground of universal science ...
... thought the world with their gendered bodies, or with their families, since these and not the mind are the ground of all rational categories. Modern science can hardly overestimate the importance of the legacy of archaic cosmological ...
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 |