Five Bodies: Re-figuring RelationshipsFive Bodies offers an introduction to some of the most urgent contemporary concerns within the sociology of the body. The book was first published in 1985 in the USA by Cornell University Press, and was nominated for the John Porter Award (sponsored by the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association). A path breaking book, it offered a framework for the growing field of the sociology of the body and opened up 'the body' for sociological research. This new edition (the previous edition was published by Cornell University Press (1985) has been substantially revised and updated to address today's issues of the body in modern life, community and politics. John O'Neill examines how embodied selves and relationships are being re-shaped and re-figured and how the embodied figures of the polity, economy and society represent the contested notions of identity, desire, wholeness and fragmentation. He focuses upon those cultural practices through which we map our macro-micro worlds: · articulating a cosmology · a body politic · a productivensumptive economy · a bio-technological frontier of human design and transplantation |
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... mind is naturally inclined by the senses to see itself externally in the body and only with great difficulty does it come to understand itself by means of reflection . This axiom gives us the universal principle of etymology in all lan ...
... mind and body , as well as between the individual and society , albeit at the expense of any such figuration of woman's body , though not interior of her spiritual body . In natural philosophy , theology , mysticism , law and poetry ...
... mind leads it to attribute its own nature to the effect , and because in that state their nature was that of men all of robust bodily strength , who expressed their very violent passions by shouting and grumbling , they pictured the sky ...