The Consuming BodyThis book provides a fascinating examination of the relationship between consumption, the idea of the body and the formation of the self. In tracing these connections, The Consuming Body develops a profile of individuality in the late twentieth century - in both its bodily and mental aspects. Pasi Falk offers a major synthesis and critical assessment of the debates surrounding the body, the self and contemporary consumer culture. The author explores two fundamental issues for modern social theory - the delineation of modern consumption and the body's historically changing position in various cultural orders. In the course of his argument he examines both metaphors of consumption and investigates the issues of representation i |
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... argument about self formation is now connected , through a discussion of eating , with the formation of society itself as an eating community . In an argument which is highly connected to Emile Durkheim's analysis of the sacred profane ...
... argument about self formation is now connected , through a discussion of eating , with the formation of society itself as an eating community . In an argument which is highly connected to Emile Durkheim's analysis of the sacred profane ...
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... argument needs to be backed up with a closer definition of what is meant by representation of ' good ' , and this is ... arguments as well as a product - centred mode of representation , etc. , but the predominant trend now is towards ...
... argument needs to be backed up with a closer definition of what is meant by representation of ' good ' , and this is ... arguments as well as a product - centred mode of representation , etc. , but the predominant trend now is towards ...
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... argument by referring to the anthropo- logical evidence according to which the so - called primitive man does not ' see ' the photograph as a depiction of reality . In other words , there is a cultural learning process - an ...
... argument by referring to the anthropo- logical evidence according to which the so - called primitive man does not ' see ' the photograph as a depiction of reality . In other words , there is a cultural learning process - an ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Body Self and Culture | 10 |
Corporeality and History | 45 |
Copyright | |
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