Hervé Juvin
Hervé Juvin is President and founder of Eurogroup Institute and is the author of a number of books on economics, finance and management. He was a columnist for Le Monde and now regularly contributes to L'Expansion and Enjeux/Les Echos. His books include La Production du Monde and The Coming of the Body.Blog
“The Wound of Work” - Nina Power on Hervé Juvin's The Coming of the Body
A talk by Nina Power at last year's Liverpool Bienniale, which takes Hervé Juvin's The Coming of the Body as the starting point for a discussion about the changing meaning of the body, and how it relates to work in the 21st century.
Visit the Liverpool Bienniale on Vimeo to see this talk and others including Chantal Mouffe, Simon Critchley and Alfredo Jaar.
Steven Poole reviews The Coming of the Body for the Guardian
Steven Poole finds much of interest in Hervé Juvin's The Coming of the Body:
Secular westerners no longer believe in God, so they believe in their own bodies instead. Such at least is the message of Juvin's stylish and bracing autopsy of postmodern corporalism, from the health'n'fitness and lifestyle-drug industries to the "production" of children, and the general ideal of life as risk-free and ruled by pleasure.
The Coming of the Body awarded a B by The Complete Review
In his review of Hervé Juvin's The Coming of the Body for The Complete Review, Michael Orthofer decides the book "offers much food for thought" ...
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The Coming of the Body
A compelling analysis of how capitalism has given birth to the new sculpted, engineered and pleasure-seeking body.