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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... needed to be minutely observed if the human enigma were ever to be appreciated. What Porter writes appreciatively of Sterne could also, of course, be written of Porter. And if it is to our everlasting chagrin that such appreciation now ...
... needed to finger Jesus's wounds in order to grasp the Resurrection. And, as prefigured by Christ's death and resurrection, in the flesh man would finally rise again. Far from washing its hands, Christianity thus implicated itself ...
... needed to be wedded to the flesh, since only through the body could it function. The two were thus not estranged and competing sovereign entities, but were related as means to ends, potentiality to actualization. This intimate rapport ...
... needed was divine truth. Philosophers had perplexed themselves and others: Ignorant of themselves, of God much more, And how the world began, and how men fell Degraded by himself, on grace depending. Much of the soul they talk, but all ...
... needed to ensure proper diet, exercise, evacuations, adequate sleep and the like. It was important to reside in a healthy environment, to regulate one's passions, and be moderate and temperate in habits. Sickness set in when bodily ...
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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 | |