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Flesh in the Age of Reason / Roy Porter ; foreword by Simon Schama

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c 2003Edition: 1st American edDescription: xviii, 573 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0393050750
  • 9780393050752
  • 9780393326963
  • 0393326969
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 820.93 P844F  22
LOC classification:
  • PR448.B63 P67 2004
NLM classification:
  • WZ 70 FA1
Contents:
Know yourself -- Religion and the soul -- Medicine and the body -- The rational self -- Science rescues the spirit -- John Locke rewrites the soul -- The spectator : the polite self in the polite body -- Shaftesbury and Mandeville -- Swift and the Scriblerans : nightmare selves -- Johnson and incorporated minds -- Edward Gibbon : fame and mortality -- This mortal coil -- Flesh and form -- Putting on a face -- Sexing the self -- Telling yourself -- And who are you? -- Unreason -- Scottish selves -- Psychologizing the self -- Industrial bodies -- Dependent bodies -- William Godwin : awakening the mind -- William Blake : the body mystical -- Byron : sexy satire -- The march of mind
Summary: "How did we come to a modern understanding of our bodies and souls? ... Roy Porter charts how, through figures as diverse as Locke, Swift, Johnson, and Gibbon, ideas about medicine, politics, and religion fundamentally changed notions of self"--Page 2 of jacket
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Archives Archives SAIACS Archives Room Yandell Collection ARCH YNDC 820.93 P844F (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 065874

Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2003

Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-555) and index

Know yourself -- Religion and the soul -- Medicine and the body -- The rational self -- Science rescues the spirit -- John Locke rewrites the soul -- The spectator : the polite self in the polite body -- Shaftesbury and Mandeville -- Swift and the Scriblerans : nightmare selves -- Johnson and incorporated minds -- Edward Gibbon : fame and mortality -- This mortal coil -- Flesh and form -- Putting on a face -- Sexing the self -- Telling yourself -- And who are you? -- Unreason -- Scottish selves -- Psychologizing the self -- Industrial bodies -- Dependent bodies -- William Godwin : awakening the mind -- William Blake : the body mystical -- Byron : sexy satire -- The march of mind

"How did we come to a modern understanding of our bodies and souls? ... Roy Porter charts how, through figures as diverse as Locke, Swift, Johnson, and Gibbon, ideas about medicine, politics, and religion fundamentally changed notions of self"--Page 2 of jacket

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