TY - BOOK AU - O'Neill,John AU - Kemple,Thomas M. AU - Featherstone,Mark TI - Writing the body politic: a John O'Neill reader T2 - Classical and contemporary social theory SN - 1138633178 AV - HM585 .O44 2020 U1 - 301.01 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY PB - Routledge KW - O'Neill, John, KW - Sociology KW - Philosophy N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Editors' introduction: Writing and reading the body politic --; Part 1; The Biobody : --; 1; Foucault's Optics: The (In)vision of Mortality and Modernity --; 2; The Specular Body: Merleau-Ponty and Lacan on Infant Self and Other --; 3; Childhood and Embodiment --; 4; Infant Theory --; Part 2; The Productive Body : --; 5; The Disciplinary Society: From Weber to Foucault --; 6; Orphic Marxism --; 7; Televideo Ergo Sum: Some Hypotheses on the Specular Functions of the Media --; 8; Empire versus Empire: A Post-Communist Manifesto --; Part 3; The Libidinal Body : --; 9; Marcuse's Maternal Ethic: Myths of Narcissism and Maternalism in Utopian Critical Memory --; 10; Structure, Flow and Balance in Montaigne's 'Of Idleness' --; 11; Mecum Meditari: Descartes Demolishing Doubt, Building a Prayer --; 12; Psychoanalysis and Sociology: From Freudo-Marxism to Freudo-Feminism --; Part 4; The Civic Body : --; 13; Vico's Arborescence --; 14; Oh, My Others, There is No Other!: Capital Culture, Class, and Hegelian Other-wiseness --; 15; Ecce Homo: The Political Theology of Good and Evil --; 16; The Circle and the Line: Kinship, Vanishment, and Globalization Narratives in a Rich/Poor World --; Appendix A; Body Politics, Civic Schooling, and Alien-nation: An Interview with John O'Neill --; Appendix B; Biographical Notes on John O'Neill, with an Autobiographical Postscript --; Appendix C; Selected Works by John O'Neill N2 - "This book brings together key essays from the career of social theorist John O’Neill, including his uncollected later writings, focusing on embodiment to explore the different ways in which the body trope informs visions of familial, economic, personal, and communal life."--Publisher's website ER -