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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... ideas themselves not suspended in some realm of disembodied play, but fleshed out as the title of the work implies and embedded in the lived historical experience of thinkers both mighty and paltry. The unmistakeably eighteenth-century ...
... idea of the soul. This takes him to places where most eighteenth-century social and cultural historians shrink from trespassing: to the ... ideas in social action; and to see, in turn, how such social action might affect the onward discourse.
... ideas of identity in the West thus presuppose some real and essential 'inner self'. Favoured ways of imagining its realization include the metaphor of a seed maturing into a flower, or the growth-process from birth to adulthood, from ...
... ideas, but like a home put together piecemeal from mental acquisitions picked up bit by bit. The self is thus the bit-by-bit product of experience and education: we are what we become – or, in Wordsworth's later phrase, the child is ...
... ideas is essential for understanding later developments. The earliest Greek-speaking philosophers, before 500 BC, hoped to explain the world in terms of a single causal entity – water, air and so on. Their successors and rivals ...
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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 | |