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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... effects to be so largely integrated with psychosocial cul- ture as to deserve only residual consideration in determining ... effect that much of human biol- ogy , for example , gender and sexual behavior , is subject to purely political ...
... effects to be so largely integrated with psychosocial cul- ture as to deserve only residual consideration in determining ... effect that much of human biol- ogy , for example , gender and sexual behavior , is subject to purely political ...
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... effect of the society he takes to be his reflection . Rieff points out that an unprecedented narcissistic effect becomes the controlling and self - committing factor in modern political life : All governments will be just , so long as ...
... effect of the society he takes to be his reflection . Rieff points out that an unprecedented narcissistic effect becomes the controlling and self - committing factor in modern political life : All governments will be just , so long as ...
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... effect whose cause they did not know , and raised their eyes and became aware of the sky . And because in such a case the nature of the human mind leads it to attribute its own nature to the effect , and because in that state their ...
... effect whose cause they did not know , and raised their eyes and became aware of the sky . And because in such a case the nature of the human mind leads it to attribute its own nature to the effect , and because in that state their ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
INTRODUCTION Our Two Bodies | 15 |
CHAPTER THREE The Body Politic | 67 |
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