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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... understanding of the larger issues of social order , conflict , and change ? Even if there were anything to be learned , how ... understand how we can rethink institutions with our bodies . But this is what we shall be doing in this book ...
... understanding of the larger issues of social order , conflict , and change ? Even if there were anything to be learned , how ... understand how we can rethink institutions with our bodies . But this is what we shall be doing in this book ...
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... understanding them ( homo non intelligendo fit omnia ) ; and perhaps the latter proposition is truer than the former , for when man understands he extends his mind and takes in the things , but when he does not understand he makes the ...
... understanding them ( homo non intelligendo fit omnia ) ; and perhaps the latter proposition is truer than the former , for when man understands he extends his mind and takes in the things , but when he does not understand he makes the ...
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... understand some of the striking arguments of Michel Fou- cault , 16 whom critics generally find difficult to follow - very largely because historians and political scientists are not used to seeing the body play such a central role in ...
... understand some of the striking arguments of Michel Fou- cault , 16 whom critics generally find difficult to follow - very largely because historians and political scientists are not used to seeing the body play such a central role in ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
INTRODUCTION Our Two Bodies | 15 |
CHAPTER THREE The Body Politic | 67 |
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