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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... 22 DEPENDENT BODIES 23 WILLIAM GODWIN: AWAKENING THE MIND 24 WILLIAM BLAKE: THE BODY MYSTICAL 25 BYRON: SEXY SATIRE 26 CONCLUSION: THE MARCH OF MIND BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX FOREWORD About half way through Roy Porter's intellectual epic,
... and Condorcet in France, Priestley, Erasmus Darwin and Godwin in England, and Fichte, Herder and Hegel in Germany. The story standardly told of the heroic rise of the modern self is not, of course, without its sub-plots, complications and.
... Godwin). We may wish and wish, but (most probably) we won't grow a centimetre taller. We cannot command our hair not to fall out, tell our kidneys to secrete or our heart to beat. And we are quite unaware of internal events (digesting ...
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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 | |