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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... object like other objects that stand around us . As such , our phys- ical body can be bumped into , knocked over , crushed , and de- stroyed . Yet , even as we say this , our language is estranged or alienated from the lived body , that ...
... object like other objects that stand around us . As such , our phys- ical body can be bumped into , knocked over , crushed , and de- stroyed . Yet , even as we say this , our language is estranged or alienated from the lived body , that ...
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... object . We must not forget that an object is the best messenger of a world above nature : one can easily see in an object at once a perfection and an absence of origin , a closure and a brilliance , a transformation of life onto matter ...
... object . We must not forget that an object is the best messenger of a world above nature : one can easily see in an object at once a perfection and an absence of origin , a closure and a brilliance , a transformation of life onto matter ...
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... object of these two strategies of power since they overlap in their operation . On the one hand , " sex " is an object for disciplinary power , while on the other hand sexuality can be psychoanalyzed and medicalized as a discursive ...
... object of these two strategies of power since they overlap in their operation . On the one hand , " sex " is an object for disciplinary power , while on the other hand sexuality can be psychoanalyzed and medicalized as a discursive ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
INTRODUCTION Our Two Bodies | 15 |
CHAPTER THREE The Body Politic | 67 |
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