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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... matter, nowhere more acutely than when Porter writes, movingly as well as wittily: He was uncommonly sensitive to the conundrum of embodiment. In flesh and blood lay the self and its articulations. With its own elaborate signlanguage of ...
... matter, body and soul? Might life be not a divine benefaction after all, but something merely material, a chemical curdling or an electrical spark which triggered vitality? Was the human body, indeed, a machine, pure and simple, of a ...
... a personal pilgrimage, a matter of faith alone (solifidianism); it could not be parcelled out by priests in pardons and other papist bribes. Hence, Protestantism forced believers into soul-searching: Puritans became noted for.
... matter in motion governed by the iron laws of mechanics. Descartes's dream of the uniqueness of human interiority (self-aware thinking) provoked later introspective philosophers further to probe the mechanisms of the mind. The question ...
... matter, could mesh and sympathize with each other. The 'new philosophy' also provoked fresh speculations about the ... matters tangible, buyable, disposable; in items of fashion and taste, manufactures, commodities, privacy, domesticity ...
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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 | |