1st Edition
Writing the Body Politic A John O’Neill Reader
Editors’ Introduction
Part 1: The Bio-Body
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
Biography
Mark Featherstone is Senior Lecturer at Keele University, UK, and author of Tocqueville’s Virus: Utopia and Dystopia in Western Social and Political Thought (2006) and Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, Globalisation (2017).
Thomas Kemple is Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and author of Reading Marx Writing: Marx, Melodrama, and the ‘Grundrisse’ (1995), Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism: Weber’s Calling (2014), and Simmel (2018).
