Bryan S Turner 
The Body and Society [EPUB ebook] 
Explorations in Social Theory

‚This truly deserves to be considered a classic and I strongly encourage my students to read it from cover to cover. Turner′s work on the body needs to be considered in its own right within courses on the sociology of the body.‘
– Dr Robert Meadows, Surrey University

‚Remains the foundational text for courses in the sociology of the body, replete with insights and a depth of analysis that has largely inspired an entire new area of studies across the social sciences.‘
– Dr Michael Drake, Hull University

‚This is THE contemporary text for both academics and students exploring the sociology of the body.‘
– Jessica Clark, University Campus Suffolk

This is a fully revised edition of a book that may fairly claim to have re-opened the sociology of the body as a legitimate area of enquiry. Providing an unparalleled guide to all aspects of the subject, each chapter has been revised and updated while the book contains new material that reflects both recent changes in the field and Turner′s developing position on the centrality of vulnerability.

Assured and innovative, this book provides the most authoritative statement of work on the sociology of the body by one of the leading writers in the field.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction to the Third Edition

Virtue and the Body: The Debate over Nature and Nurture

Chapter 1: The Mode of Desire

Vulnerability and Values

Needs and Desires

Wisdom and Friendship

The Mode of Desire

Asceticism

Desire and Reason

Homo Duplex

Play and Pleasure

Capitalist Bodies

Chapter 2: Sociology and the Body

Absent Bodies

The Self

Michel Foucault

Spirit and Flesh

Sociology of the Body

Locations for a Theory

Critical Theory

Structuralism

Foucault and the Origins of Sociology

Phenomenology

The Person

Chapter 3: The Body and Religion

Capitalism, Desire, Rationality

Sickness, Salvation and Medicine

Medical Ethics and the Medical Fee

Medicine as a Secular Practice

Capitalism and the Body

Chapter 4: Bodily Order

Hobbesian Materialism

Neo-Hobbesian Problem of Order

Reproduction

Restraint

Regulation

Representation

Chapter 5: Eve′s Body

Nature/Culture Argument

The Property Argument

Patriarchal Relations

The Feudal System

Individualism

Witchcraft

An Argument for Divorce

Chapter 6: The End of Patriarchy?

The Dominant Ideology Thesis

Patriarchalism

Weber on Patriarchy

Engels on Patriarchy

Feminist Theory

The Household in Capitalism

Patrism

Chapter 7: The Disciplines

Foucault, Language, Desire

The Accumulation of Men

Asceticism

Dietary Management

Table Practices

The Critique of Foucault

Chapter 8: Government of the Body

A Mode of Living

The Orgy and the Fast

On Disease

Man is What He Eats

Sensualism

Body Practices

Contradictions

Corsets

Women′s Complaints

Calculating Hedonism

Chapter 9: Disease and Disorder

Disease versus Illness

On the Specialization of Sin, Disease and Deviance

Secularization

Medical Morality

Doctors, Women and Sexuality

Culture and Disease

Chapter 10: Ontology of Difference

Marx′s Ontology

The Body in Nature and the Nature in the Body

Nietzsche versus Marx

The Body and Difference

Body Paradoxes

Chapter 11: Bodies in Motion – Towards an Aesthetic of Dance

The Experience of Aura

Defining Dance

Dance and Modernism

Conclusion: The Stuff of Dance

Chapter 12: The Body and Boredom – The New Longevity

The Body and Metaphysics

Technology and Living Forever

Body and Soul

The Elixir of Life

Sociology of Ageing

Boredom and the Theology of Prolongevity

Chapter 13: Epilogue – Vulnerability and Values

Embodiment, Vulnerability and Frailty

Human Rights: Frailty, Precariousness and Interconectedness

The Metaphors of Sociability

Evil and the Theological Turn

Forgiveness or Revenge?

Über den 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.