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 93
... serve us than to enslave us . As John Kenneth Galbraith ob- serves , it is as though our economy were ruled by an evil ge- nius : Were it so that a man on arising each morning was assailed by demons which instilled in him a passion ...
... serve us than to enslave us . As John Kenneth Galbraith ob- serves , it is as though our economy were ruled by an evil ge- nius : Were it so that a man on arising each morning was assailed by demons which instilled in him a passion ...
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... served to cope with and interpret the ordinary ills of embodied beings . Every day we read about unnecessary surgery ... serve nothing beyond medical technology . Here important factors are the numbers of surgeons , the nature of payment ...
... served to cope with and interpret the ordinary ills of embodied beings . Every day we read about unnecessary surgery ... serve nothing beyond medical technology . Here important factors are the numbers of surgeons , the nature of payment ...
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... served to relegate the traditional patriarch to an antediluvian , sometimes comic charac- terization . Here mass ... serves and protects . No one no- tices that in this cycle the authority of the family is reduced by the very process ...
... served to relegate the traditional patriarch to an antediluvian , sometimes comic charac- terization . Here mass ... serves and protects . No one no- tices that in this cycle the authority of the family is reduced by the very process ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
INTRODUCTION Our Two Bodies | 15 |
CHAPTER THREE The Body Politic | 67 |
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