Writing the Body Politic (eBook, ePUB)

A John O'Neill Reader
Redaktion: Featherstone, Mark; Kemple, Thomas

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together key essays from the career of social theorist John O'Neill, including his uncollected later writings, focusing on embodiment to explore the different ways in which the body trope informs visions of familial, economic, personal, and communal life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351801805
• Artikelnr.: 57533323

Autorenporträt

Mark Featherstone is Senior Lecturer at Keele University, UK, and author of Tocqueville's Virus: Utopia and Dystopia in Western Social and Political Thought (2006) and Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, Globalisation (2017). Thomas Kemple is Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and author of Reading Marx Writing: Marx, Melodrama, and the 'Grundrisse' (1995), Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism: Weber's Calling (2014), and Simmel (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Editors' Introduction
Part 1: The Bio-Body
1. Foucault's Optics: The (In)vision of Mortality and Modernity
2. The Specular Body: Merleau-Ponty and Lacan on Infant Self and Other
3. Childhood and Embodiment
4. Infant Theory
Part 2: The Productive Body
5. The Disciplinary Society: From Weber to Foucault
6. Orphic Marxism
7. Televideo Ergo Sum: Some Hypotheses on the Specular Functions of the
Media
8. Empire versus Empire: A Post-Communist Manifesto
Part 3: The Libidinal Body
9. Marcuse's Maternal Ethic: Myths of Narcissism and Maternalism in Utopian
Critical Memory
10. Structure, Flow and Balance in Montaigne's 'Of Idleness'
11. Mecum Meditari: Descartes Demolishing Doubt, Building a Prayer
12. Psychoanalysis and Sociology: From Freudo-Marxism to Freudo-Feminism
Part 4: The Civic Body
13. Vico's Arborescence
14. Oh, My Others, There is No Other! Capital Culture, Class, and Hegelian
Other-wiseness
15. Ecce Homo: The Political Theology of Good and Evil
16. The Circle and the Line: Kinship, Vanishment, and Globalization
Narratives in a Rich/Poor World
Appendix A: Body Politics, Civic Schooling, and Alien-nation: An Interview
with John O'Neill
Appendix B: Biographical Notes on John O'Neill, with an Autobiographical
Postscript
Appendix C: Selected Works by John O'Neill