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 73
... Death , for as to this Body the King never dies , and his natural Death is not called in our Law ( as Harper said ) , the Death of the King , but the Demise of the King , not signifying by the Word ( Demise ) that the Body politic of ...
... Death , for as to this Body the King never dies , and his natural Death is not called in our Law ( as Harper said ) , the Death of the King , but the Demise of the King , not signifying by the Word ( Demise ) that the Body politic of ...
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... death ( December 20 , 1982 ) , there is the story of Barney Clark's experience with the implantation of an artificial heart , Jarvik - 7 , an event marred only by his home having been van- dalized in his absence . Here we have the ...
... death ( December 20 , 1982 ) , there is the story of Barney Clark's experience with the implantation of an artificial heart , Jarvik - 7 , an event marred only by his home having been van- dalized in his absence . Here we have the ...
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... death , for a restoration of the theater of life and death in which we can be restored to the sense of our own good and evil . Unlike the Cross or the Star of David , the photos and magazine sketches that trace Brooks's death in the ...
... death , for a restoration of the theater of life and death in which we can be restored to the sense of our own good and evil . Unlike the Cross or the Star of David , the photos and magazine sketches that trace Brooks's death in the ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
INTRODUCTION Our Two Bodies | 15 |
CHAPTER THREE The Body Politic | 67 |
Copyright | |
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