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Writing the Body Politic - A John O'Neill Reader (Paperback)
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Writing the Body Politic - A John O'Neill Reader (Paperback)
Series: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
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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. Beginning with an exploration of O'Neill's work on
the construction of the biobody and the ways in which corporeality
is sutured into social systems through regimes of power and
familial socialisation, the book then moves to concentrate on
O'Neill's career-long studies of the productive body and the ways
in which the working body is caught in and resists disciplinary
systems that seek to rationalise natural functions and control
social relations. The third section considers O'Neill's concern
with the ancient, early modern, and psychoanalytic sources of the
post-modern libidinal body, and a final section on the civic body
focuses specifically on the ways in which principles of reciprocity
and generosity exceed the capitalist, individualist body of
(neo)liberal political theory. The volume also includes an
interview with O'Neill addressing many of the key themes of his
work, a biographical note with an autobiographical postscript, a
select bibliography of O'Neill's many publications, and an
extensive introduction by the editors. A challenging and innovative
collection, Writing the Body Politic: A John O'Neill Reader will
appeal to critical social theorists and sociologists with interests
in the work of one of sociology's great critical readers of
classical and contemporary texts.
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