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: ˇ articulating a cosmology ˇ a body politic ˇ a productivensumptive economy ˇ a bio-technological frontier of human design and transplantation |
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... thought the world with their bodies : The human 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 ...
... thought : In the literary image of the body as microcosm , the literal and figurative visions are joined ; but in the history of natural philosophy through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance , the figurative tradition remained indepen ...
... thought , or one that might be allowed to atrophy with modern advances , those arts of sensible intuition Lévi- Strauss refers to under the notion of bricolage are what make scientific prac- tice possible . The bricoleur is not tied to ...