The Consuming BodySAGE Publications, 1994 M11 11 - 256 páginas 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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... ideal of an elite court group or high bourgeois culture . Dieting , jogging , the work- out , mass sport , and physical education have all brought the idea of the perfect body to a mass audience . In this sense , Giddens ' claims about ...
... ideal of an elite court group or high bourgeois culture . Dieting , jogging , the work- out , mass sport , and physical education have all brought the idea of the perfect body to a mass audience . In this sense , Giddens ' claims about ...
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... ideal ' good ' into mythic or utopian Otherness to another time and / or another place ( Paradise Lost or that to come ) . At the individual level of modern consumption the goods have a similar position - as fixed points and material ...
... ideal ' good ' into mythic or utopian Otherness to another time and / or another place ( Paradise Lost or that to come ) . At the individual level of modern consumption the goods have a similar position - as fixed points and material ...
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... ideal creature would make each and every choice autonomously and endogenously , carefully weighing all relevant needs ; it would go to any length to obtain the missing information , and ultimately the missing means of need ...
... ideal creature would make each and every choice autonomously and endogenously , carefully weighing all relevant needs ; it would go to any length to obtain the missing information , and ultimately the missing means of need ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Body Self and Culture | 10 |
Corporeality and History | 45 |
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