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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... rational categories . Modern science can hardly overestimate the importance of the legacy of archaic cosmological thought . It is impossible to imagine an unmapped uni- verse waiting for the rationalist sciences to domesticate it . Our ...
... rationality increasingly dominates the production and maintenance of social order , making alternative conceptions of society seem utopian and irrational . However , the repressive functions of administrative rationality have inevitably ...
... rationality of people's ordinary accounts of their political experience in terms of the vocabularies of family , work ... rational justification of an ideal speech community in terms of the spe- cific discursive pragmatics of the body ...