Flesh in the Age of ReasonPenguin UK, 2005/01/27 - 592 ページ 'As an introduction to early modern thinking and the impact of past ideas on present lives, this book can find few equals and no superiors. Porter is a witty, humane writer with an extraordinary vocabulary and a sparkling sense of fun. Whether he is quoting from obscure medical texts or analysing scabrous diaries, dishing the dirt on long-dead bigwigs or evoking sympathy for human suffering, his grasp is masterly and his erudition appealing. I wish I could read it again for the first time: you can.' Times Educational Supplement, Book of the Week |
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... culture, whithout any kind of anachronistic projection. Thus, Porter sees the change in the second half of the eighteenth century, from a culture which celebrated embonpoint and fleshiness as a sign of vitality to Byron's narcissistic ...
... culture' aimed to widen the cordon sanitaire between bodies superior and inferior. Refined bodily manners would be elevated above coarse flesh via the 'civilizing process'; vile bodies would be firmly consigned to their place; and their ...
... culture would be immensely rewarding. This book follows on from my Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (Allen Lane, 2000). Noting various themes omitted from that book, particularly 'the controversies which raged ...
... culture crediting supernatural powers is likely to entertain an afterlife of sorts. But this Christian identification of the self with a 'separate soul' which transcended the flesh was especially indebted to theosophies rooted in the ...
... culture and coffee houses, prompt the abandoning of Christianity root and branch; but it certainly kindled questioning and it led the Churches themselves to hearken to their flocks and amend their priorities. There was perhaps less ...
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SCIENCE RESCUES THE SPIRIT | |
JOHN LOCKE REWRITES THE SOUL | |
THE POLITE SELF IN THE POLITE BODY | |
NIGHTMARE SELVES 10 JOHNSON AND INCORPORATED MINDS 11 EDWARD GIBBON FAME AND MORTALITY | |