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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... present: deeply serious in the depth of his philosophical inquiry, yet wearing his massive erudition lightly. As always in his work, exacting arguments of intellectual history are made accessible as narrative; the ideas themselves not ...
... examine the triangle of the moral, the material and the medical in the anglophone Enlightenment'. This is that. Building upon its broad account of British enlightened thinking, I here present detailed explorations of dilemmas about ...
Roy Porter. thinking, I here present detailed explorations of dilemmas about personal identity in the light of changing beliefs about man's place in nature and human nature. I have not attempted a 'textbook' coverage; rather I present a ...
... present-day psychological research which is endeavouring to prove to the 'ego' of each one of us that he is not even master in his own house, but that he must remain content with the veriest scraps of information about what is going on ...
... present to consist of, in as good plight as possible. Yet the flesh proved deeply problematic, and, as Chesterfield's letters show, if it was a source of pleasure, it was also a thorough nuisance, in constant need of care, attention 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 | |