Five Bodies: The Human Shape of Modern SocietyRenowned social critic John O'Neill takes the human body as the focal point of his inquiry into the complex relation of individuals, nature and social institutions. The body once served as the foundation for thinking about politics, society, and the world, O'Neill asserts, but this human proportion has been lost in the modern world. Carefully delineating the course and the consequences of this loss in many realms of modern life, O'Neill demonstrates that we are dominated by concepts of life, family, thought, health and sanity that barely allow us to maintain a sense of our individuality and humanity. O'Neill proposes a renewed and radical anthropomorphism, one that will restore the overwhelming modern world to comprehensible dimensions. ISBN 0-8014-1727-9: $17.50. |
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... continue to look for reasonable articulations of the body politic in order to express their concern with environmental pollution , genocide , family breakdown , threats to the bodily integrity of women and children , unwhole- some food ...
... continue to look for reasonable articulations of the body politic in order to express their concern with environmental pollution , genocide , family breakdown , threats to the bodily integrity of women and children , unwhole- some food ...
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... continue to be an issue in modern society and that we can ex- pect continuing reforms along several lines - reforms whose achievement would be difficult to imagine without the struggle in which women are presently engaged , in pursuit ...
... continue to be an issue in modern society and that we can ex- pect continuing reforms along several lines - reforms whose achievement would be difficult to imagine without the struggle in which women are presently engaged , in pursuit ...
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... continues to be woman's work and males continue to leave home for the " wide world " of the factory and office or its mobile equivalent — and many women have both jobs . The consequent discrepancy between the fun culture and the bodily ...
... continues to be woman's work and males continue to leave home for the " wide world " of the factory and office or its mobile equivalent — and many women have both jobs . The consequent discrepancy between the fun culture and the bodily ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
INTRODUCTION Our Two Bodies | 15 |
CHAPTER THREE The Body Politic | 67 |
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