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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... eighteenth-century irony, that the subject of Roy's posthumous masterpiece is itself the long, vexed relationship between the body and the rest of us (soul or mind), would have drawn from the author one of his famously expansive full ...
... eighteenth-century social and cultural historians shrink from trespassing: to the Greeks and the classical Christian philosophers and theologians, and eventually on to René Descartes's dualism. One of the many reasons to be wistful as ...
... century England, he writes of the anxieties voiced by Cheyne, was 'becoming a nation of fatties' and 'for certain of Johnson's contemporaries, the blues were a treasured identity badge'. Then, too, Porter allows his ... eighteenth-century.
Roy Porter. a vindication of another of its more hopeful, authentically eighteenth-century themes: that though the body may perish, the mind does indeed live on. SIMON SCHAMA PREFACE Key developments in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century ...
... century later, patients would 'tell all' on the Freudian couch. This novel and seemingly inexhaustible fascination with baring the soul reminds us that it was during the eighteenth century that the novel, particularly when cast as first ...
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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 | |