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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... is lightened, not by any relaxation in the sharpness of argument, but by Porter's brief to himself to register the imprint of ideas in social action; and to see, in turn, how such social action might affect the onward discourse.
Roy Porter. turn, how such social action might affect the onward discourse of debates about body and mind. So there are, as usual in his work, passages of dazzling description which conjure up whole worlds of freshly agitated self ...
... turning the flesh into a 'body in question'. Down the centuries, it had been the Churches which had arrogated to themselves the authority to pronounce on the riddles of life, from before the cradle to beyond the grave, by way of their ...
... turn of the eighteenth century inevitably brought, in a free and flourishing country, that proliferation of new-minted truths, discoveries and visions which so incensed Jonathan Swift, who exposed how the novelty of authorship gratified ...
... the ascendancy of the immaterial by casting it essentially as res cogitans, a thinking self. Cartesianism thereby encouraged the naturalistic turn taken by the new rationalism, for this cogito stood on its own rational feet,
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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 | |