The Consuming BodyThis is 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. He 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 in advertising and pornography. |
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... nature of political sovereignty . Here again the historical research of E.H. Kantorowicz ( 1957 ) on the nature of the sacred and profane body of the king was a major development in understanding the symbolic role of the body in ...
... nature of political sovereignty . Here again the historical research of E.H. Kantorowicz ( 1957 ) on the nature of the sacred and profane body of the king was a major development in understanding the symbolic role of the body in ...
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... nature of power have been facilitated by feminist and gay writing on the body . Much of the development of feminist writing in this area has depended upon the creative work of writers like Julia Kristeva ( Crownfield , 1992 ) , Donna ...
... nature of power have been facilitated by feminist and gay writing on the body . Much of the development of feminist writing in this area has depended upon the creative work of writers like Julia Kristeva ( Crownfield , 1992 ) , Donna ...
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... nature of human embodiment . A general outline of the theory of the body requires the following : ( a ) a sophisticated understanding of the very notion of embodiment which would be a method of exploring the systematic ambiguity of the ...
... nature of human embodiment . A general outline of the theory of the body requires the following : ( a ) a sophisticated understanding of the very notion of embodiment which would be a method of exploring the systematic ambiguity of the ...
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... nature of corporeality and embodiment leads directly into the question of the self and the social actor . The characterization of the social actor has been an issue which has dominated the entire development of the social sciences ...
... nature of corporeality and embodiment leads directly into the question of the self and the social actor . The characterization of the social actor has been an issue which has dominated the entire development of the social sciences ...
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... Natural Symbols : Explorations in Cosmology . London : Barrie and Rockliff . Dreyfus , H.L. ( 1991 ) Being - in - the - World . Cambridge , MA : The MIT Press . Durkheim , E. ( 1961 ) The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life . New ...
... Natural Symbols : Explorations in Cosmology . London : Barrie and Rockliff . Dreyfus , H.L. ( 1991 ) Being - in - the - World . Cambridge , MA : The MIT Press . Durkheim , E. ( 1961 ) The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life . New ...
Contents
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Chapter 3 Corporeality and History | 45 |
Chapter 4 Towards an Historical Anthropology of Taste | 68 |
Chapter 5 Consuming Desire | 93 |
on the Genealogy of modern advertising | 151 |
Chapter 7 Pornography and the Representation of Presence | 186 |
References | 218 |
Name Index | 232 |
Subject Index | 235 |
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