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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... moral chaos . We do , more or less . But I think we sur- vive by living off borrowed moral capital . Therefore I want to raise the old question : who makes us ? This is the anthropomorphic question . By asking it and in looking for ...
... moral : - If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt , we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out of place . This is a very sugges- tive approach . It implies two conditions : a set of ordered ...
... morality by leaving the market free . For if ever morality were to prevail over vice , the economy would collapse and church and state with it : For the main design of the Fable , ( as it is breefly explain'd in the Moral ) is to shew ...