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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... nature of man. In certain respects, the body grew more beset and battered. Endemic warfare, epidemics of bubonic plague, typhus and other urban fevers and the hideous new horrors of syphilis sharpened the woes of this mortal coil. And ...
... nature at large as conceived by the new mechanical philosophy? Were the passions to be tamed, or could they be trusted, as part of the wisdom of the body? Was there a vis medicatrix naturae, a healing power of Nature, which would ...
Roy Porter. Nature, which would preserve life against disease and dissolution? Not least – profanely Promethean ... natural and the body artificial; the body solitary and social; the body sacred and profane – all these were in the melting ...
... nature and human nature. I have not attempted a 'textbook' coverage; rather I present a gallery of contrasting yet interlocking studies meant to be engaging and stimulating rather than encyclopaedic. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Much of the ...
... nature) served progressive ends – it underwrote political liberation. In the twentieth century, by contrast, the Lockean doctrine of malleability played into the hands of stimulus-response behaviourism, as developed by B. F. Skinner and ...
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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 | |