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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... developed by Vesalius, further opened the tangible body, the body of the senses, to the probing, penetrative curiosity of the scalpel. Once within the anatomy theatre, the corpse ceased to be inviolable and taboo, and carnal knowledge ...
... developed by B. F. Skinner and taken up by totalitarian brainwashing regimes, and of other conservative exponents of social conditioning. The tensions between self-knowledge and self-possession – the ambiguous implications of science ...
... developed stances at odds with entrenched Christian doctrines, now rejecting, now reinterpreting them. Christian orthodoxy comprised elements gleaned from the Gospels and given an imprimatur by the Churches. The scriptural story of ...
Roy Porter. developed doctrine of an afterlife in which souls would posthumously participate.* The Promised Land of the children of Israel is emphatically not some post- and extra-terrestrial heaven: and while Jehovah frequently ...
... developed set the mould for mainstream Western reasoning about the mind, as was in effect acknowledged by Freud when he named infantile psycho- sexual conflicts the 'Oedipus Complex', paying tribute to the play by Sophocles. What makes ...
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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 | |