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9780803989740: The Consuming Body
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0803989741 ISBN 13 : 9780803989740
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

This 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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À propos de l'auteur

Pasi Falk is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

`I consider this book a remarkable achievement. Sophisticated in its use of sociological, anthropological and critical theory, [it] also successfully conveys the direct tangible experience of corporality and the senses. Falk's original, insightful book sets the study of the body onto a new plane' - Roy Porter, The Wellcome Institute

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Éditeur
SAGE Publications Ltd
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803989741
ISBN 13 
9780803989740
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
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