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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... argue that gender was a social construction. Throughout the whole book flashes Roy Porter's wickedly wonderful way with language; unafraid of importing street talk when it makes sense and delivers his argument with punchy.
Roy Porter. when it makes sense and delivers his argument with punchy humour. Eighteenth-century England, he writes of the anxieties voiced by Cheyne, was 'becoming a nation of fatties' and 'for certain of Johnson's contemporaries, the ...
... sense of danger and desperation was amplified by the hellfire religious terrorism thundering from Calvinist and CounterReformation pulpits and the morbid disgust expressive of extreme Mannerist and Baroque sensibilities. Yet this was ...
... sense of identity stems directly from transformations occurring in the centuries since the Renaissance. These developments are often characterized as the 'death of the soul'; but inseparable from such a process, and no less salient, has ...
... sense of personal singularity, and a bold impulse to explore that distinctiveness, radiates from the sixteenthcentury French essayist Michel de Montaigne, who posed the fundamental question: que sçais-je? (what do I know?), and then ...
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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 | |