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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... pleasure. For it is mercilessly clear that Roy died at the height of his powers. The book is great Porter, which is to say the best history anyone could ever want to read. Never was the presence of the author so strongly present: deeply ...
... pleasures of polite prosperity. If some, like Samuel Johnson, continued to hold that there was more in life to be endured than enjoyed, many were keen to change that, and the quest for social pleasures became a prime mover in the new ...
... pleasure, it was also a thorough nuisance, in constant need of care, attention and apology. To a degree that is hard to imagine nowadays, visible, tangible flesh was all too often experienced as ugly, nasty and decaying, bitten by bugs ...
... pleasure and pain, capable of happiness or misery, and so is concerned for itself, as far as that consciousness extends. JOHN lOCKE Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The Proper study of mankind is Man. ALEXANDER POPE What is ...
... pleasure in its mysteries. But all such homage to the autonomous and pre-eminent soul was brought down to earth by a fly in the philosophical ointment, Thomas Hobbes. The short way, adopted in Hobbes's most important work, Leviathan ...
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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 | |