The Consuming Body

Pasi Falk (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

1994
SAGE Publications Inc (Verlag)
9780803989740 (ISBN)

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`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

This 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.

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

Preface - Bryan S Turner
Introduction
Body, Self and Culture
Corporeality and History
Towards an Historical Anthropology of Taste
Consuming Desire
Selling Good(s)
On the Genealogy of Modern Advertising
Pornography and the Representation of Presence

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.7.1994
Reihe/Serie	Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
Verlagsort	Thousand Oaks
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	490 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9780803989740 / 9780803989740
Zustand	Neuware