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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... person, Rousseau insisted: he was exceptionally sensitive, he had masochistic leanings, he was addicted to masturbation and other vices, and had abandoned all his infants to an orphanage. In Rousseau, and all the more so in the Marquis ...
... person was a familiar paradox: a miserable sinner, promised an eternal destiny beyond the grave. The young Dissenter Isaac Watts could thus, around 1680, insert himself in a scenario familiar ever since St Augustine: I am a vile ...
... person' or 'oneself'. Rather, Homer portrays life and conduct as driven by external, supernatural forces, and his protagonists are puppet-like, often in the grip of terrible powers beyond their control – gods, demons and Furies –
... person – man was the union of soul, which had received the divine spirit, with flesh, made in God's image. Irenaeus' contemporary, the brow-beating, heretic-hunting Tertullian, demanded respect for God-created flesh. But other winds ...
... person's body and soul, contesting responsibility for his failings. The Soul blamed sin on the flesh, which it charged with every imaginable carnal enormity. Not so, rejoined the Body: it could not be censured for sin, because it was ...
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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 | |