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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... kind ; Every raven after its kind ; And the ostrich , and the night hawk , and the sea gull , and the hawk after its kind ; And the white owl , and the cormorant , and the horned owl , And the swan , and the pelican , and the carrion ...
... kind ; Every raven after its kind ; And the ostrich , and the night hawk , and the sea gull , and the hawk after its kind ; And the white owl , and the cormorant , and the horned owl , And the swan , and the pelican , and the carrion ...
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... kind of society we wish simultaneously to engineer . It is here that our imagination is more likely to fail us . At the present time , con- ventional medicine expends incredibly fine skills on the repair of bodies that our society with ...
... kind of society we wish simultaneously to engineer . It is here that our imagination is more likely to fail us . At the present time , con- ventional medicine expends incredibly fine skills on the repair of bodies that our society with ...
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... kind enough to make extensive critical comments on an early ver- sion of my work . I fear she may feel that her efforts to warn me away from the romance of bodies were wasted upon an inveterate millenar- ian . For all that , her work is ...
... kind enough to make extensive critical comments on an early ver- sion of my work . I fear she may feel that her efforts to warn me away from the romance of bodies were wasted upon an inveterate millenar- ian . For all that , her work is ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
INTRODUCTION Our Two Bodies | 15 |
CHAPTER THREE The Body Politic | 67 |
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