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A Phenomenology Of Fitness From Consumption To Virtuous Production, Ross Neville
A Phenomenology Of Fitness From Consumption To Virtuous Production, Ross Neville
Theses, Doctoral
Although our imagination as policy-makers, legislators, academics, and members of the general public has been captured by the promise of fitness, what is meant by it and whether or not its individualising emphasis is a good thing is much less clear. In response to this question of cultural significance, this thesis provides a phenomenology of fitness. It does so in two important senses and in the context of two distinct parts.
The first half of this thesis (Chapters One and Two) is given to the task of bracketing the natural attitude with respect to fitness; that is, contextualising the question …