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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Page 46
... course , some might reach the opposite conclusion by seizing on the weakness and fallibility of human projection . From this standpoint , anthropomorphism is the last error of a nerveless humanism unable to live in a cosmos that refuses ...
... course , some might reach the opposite conclusion by seizing on the weakness and fallibility of human projection . From this standpoint , anthropomorphism is the last error of a nerveless humanism unable to live in a cosmos that refuses ...
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... course , behind their white coats professional medical bodies hide the same class , sex , and racial characteris- tics as the wider society from which they appear to be removed : physicians are mostly upper - middle - class white males ...
... course , behind their white coats professional medical bodies hide the same class , sex , and racial characteris- tics as the wider society from which they appear to be removed : physicians are mostly upper - middle - class white males ...
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... course as a sociotext.5 Of course , society has al- ways shaped life , as I have tried to show throughout this work , But we appear now to stand on a frontier where the origins and ends of life converge , making us more of a question ...
... course as a sociotext.5 Of course , society has al- ways shaped life , as I have tried to show throughout this work , But we appear now to stand on a frontier where the origins and ends of life converge , making us more of a question ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
INTRODUCTION Our Two Bodies | 15 |
CHAPTER THREE The Body Politic | 67 |
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