The Consuming Body (Theory, Culture and Society Series, Vol. 30) - Softcover

Buch 66 von 127: Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society

Falk, Pasi

 
9780803989740: The Consuming Body (Theory, Culture and Society Series, Vol. 30)

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

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ISBN 10:  0803989733 ISBN 13:  9780803989733
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1994
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