Bryan S Turner

Broschiertes Buch

The Body and Society

Explorations in Social Theory

Beschreibung

Third edition of Bryan Turner's seminal text on the body and social theory. One of the biggest authors in the field today.

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.

Produktdetails

• Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
• Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc
• 3 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9781412929875
• ISBN-10: 1412929873
• Artikelnr.: 23316142

Rezensionen

The Body And Society is now better than ever. ... Turner bridges the organic and cultural with his philosophical and theological aspirations: the result is a penetrating analysis of society's blend of bodies - from erotic to famished bodies, labouring to desiring bodies
Anthony Elliott
Flinders University

Bryan Turner has revolutionized the way in which we think about ourselves and our bodies. This edition ... demonstrates further intellectual growth and development; innovative ideas inform an already classic understanding. The human body is the very material of our lives; this book allows us to deepen our knowledge of the meanings of the body in the twenty-first century and offers a definitive and emancipatory account of the possibilities (both negative and positive) with which we are presented and which we construct for ourselves
Mary Evans
London School of Economics