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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... true', as Polonius puts it in Hamlet, wearying his son as ever with unwanted advice. In this triumphalist telling, the secret of selfhood is located in authenticity and individuality, and the story presented is one of the surmounting of ...
... true individual consciousness, asserted in defiance of clannish taboos and the inexorable decrees of the gods. Socrates and other philosophers began to give expression to ideals of inner goodness, truth and sacred conscience. So ...
... true inner self. Life must be a pilgrimage of self-discovery, bitter perhaps – a Winterreise. In their distinctive ways, Schiller and Shelley, Coleridge and Chateaubriand, Hölderlin and Hazlitt each espoused a creed of the sacredness of ...
... true identity eventually disclosed: deceptions would end, the masks would come off, all would be revealed. Faced with cases of 'multiple personality', psychoanalysis aimed to expose the false and reinstate the true one. What has been ...
... True, right-wing governments in the United States and United Kingdom which champion market-place individualism have the backing of sociobiologists and psychological Darwinians who insist that the selfish gene is Nature's way, and there ...
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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 | |