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The Body and Society

Explorations in Social Theory
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
298 Seiten
Englisch
Sage Publications Ltderschienen am18.04.20083. Auflage
Third edition of Bryan Turner's seminal text on the body and social theory. One of the biggest authors in the field today.mehr
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Produkt

KlappentextThird edition of Bryan Turner's seminal text on the body and social theory. One of the biggest authors in the field today.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-4129-2987-5
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2008
Erscheinungsdatum18.04.2008
Auflage3. Auflage
ReihePublished in association with Theory, Culture & Society
Seiten298 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 156 mm, Höhe 234 mm, Dicke 17 mm
Gewicht456 g
Artikel-Nr.14428355

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction to the Third Edition Virtue and the Body: The Debate over Nature and NurtureChapter 1: The Mode of Desire Vulnerability and Values Needs and Desires Wisdom and Friendship The Mode of Desire Asceticism Desire and Reason Homo Duplex Play and Pleasure Capitalist BodiesChapter 2: Sociology and the Body Absent Bodies The Self Michel Foucault Spirit and Flesh Sociology of the Body Locations for a Theory Critical Theory Structuralism Foucault and the Origins of Sociology Phenomenology The PersonChapter 3: The Body and Religion Capitalism, Desire, Rationality Sickness, Salvation and Medicine Medical Ethics and the Medical Fee Medicine as a Secular Practice Capitalism and the BodyChapter 4: Bodily Order Hobbesian Materialism Neo-Hobbesian Problem of Order Reproduction Restraint Regulation RepresentationChapter 5: Eve's Body Nature/Culture Argument The Property Argument Patriarchal Relations The Feudal System Individualism Witchcraft An Argument for DivorceChapter 6: The End of Patriarchy? The Dominant Ideology Thesis Patriarchalism Weber on Patriarchy Engels on Patriarchy Feminist Theory The Household in Capitalism PatrismChapter 7: The Disciplines Foucault, Language, Desire The Accumulation of Men Asceticism Dietary Management Table Practices The Critique of FoucaultChapter 8: Government of the Body A Mode of Living The Orgy and the Fast On Disease Man is What He Eats Sensualism Body Practices Contradictions Corsets Women's Complaints Calculating HedonismChapter 9: Disease and Disorder Disease versus Illness On the Specialization of Sin, Disease and Deviance Secularization Medical Morality Doctors, Women and Sexuality Culture and DiseaseChapter 10: Ontology of Difference Marx's Ontology The Body in Nature and the Nature in the Body Nietzsche versus Marx The Body and Difference Body ParadoxesChapter 11: Bodies in Motion - Towards an Aesthetic of Dance The Experience of Aura Defining Dance Dance and Modernism Conclusion: The Stuff of DanceChapter 12: The Body and Boredom - The New Longevity The Body and Metaphysics Technology and Living Forever Body and Soul The Elixir of Life Sociology of Ageing Boredom and the Theology of ProlongevityChapter 13: Epilogue - Vulnerability and Values Embodiment, Vulnerability and Frailty Human Rights: Frailty, Precariousness and Interconectedness The Metaphors of Sociability Evil and the Theological Turn Forgiveness or Revenge?mehr

Autor

Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology in the Asian Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge from 1998-2005. His research interests include globalization and religion, concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state, religious authority and electronic information, religious, consumerism and youth cultures, human rights and religion, the human body, medical change, and religious cosmologies. He is Joint Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals.