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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... later centuries, under imperial despotism in Rome, Stoic philosophers like Seneca valued suicide as the only permitted expression of freedom and autonomy. The age of faith brought partial advances towards realizing the sovereignty of ...
... later introspective philosophers further to probe the mechanisms of the mind. The question who am I? was turned into a matter of how our cognitive processes operate: identity resides within the house of intellect. In.
... later phrase, the child is father of the man. Particular parents, surroundings and stimuli produce individuated selves. Identity is thus unique because contingent, the cumulative product of ceaseless occurrences. By implication, Locke ...
... 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-person ...
... later apologetics – not an emancipation from social fetters but the very means by which state power cunningly locked subjects into bureaucratic and administrative systems, by stamping them with a clear and distinct identity ...
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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 | |