Flesh in the Age of Reason / Roy Porter ; foreword by Simon Schama.
Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.
2004
PR448.B63 P67 2004 (Mapit)
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Title
Flesh in the Age of Reason / Roy Porter ; foreword by Simon Schama.
Author
Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.
Edition
1st American ed.
ISBN
0393050750
Publication Details
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2004.
Language
English
Description
xviii, 573 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
PR448.B63 P67 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.9/3561
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"--p. [2] of jacket.
Note
Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2003.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 475-555) and index.
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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.

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