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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 in advertising and pornography. The author is concerned throughout with the contingent nature of definitions of the body as well as with the culturally and historically specific notions of the self and its boundaries.

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Book category Książki po angielsku Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Full title: Consuming Body
• Author: Pasi Falk
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780803989740
• ISBN: 0803989741
• ID: 04715567
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Weight: 398 g
• Dimensions: 155 × 233 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. July 1994

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