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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... existence beyond the grave (perhaps in metempsychosis, the transmigration of souls), and belief in ghosts, shades or the wandering spirits of lost souls has been ubiquitous. Any culture crediting supernatural powers is likely to ...
... existence did it enjoy or endure post mortem? In lashing the corruptions of the Catholic Church, Protestantism thus prompted the brash questions of rationalists and the later qualms of Victorian honest doubters. Did the British continue ...
... existence crowded out the mysteries of eternity, as the big issue turned from 'Shall I be saved?' to 'How shall I be happy?', a further question cast its shadow: 'What is it, then, that I am?' Few educated people explicitly denied that ...
... existence. These trends were doubtless, in broad terms, secularizing, but they emphatically did not lead to the deposing of the Christian soul by a new predilection for the flesh as such. For the 'body' remained hardly less puzzling ...
... existence and made sense of the self, with a changing, and waning, reference to the soul. It is a story of the disenchantment of the world, a move from a time when everything was ensouled (animism) towards a present day in which the ...
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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 | |