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Flesh in the Age of Reason

Roy Porter 1946-2002

New York W.W. Norton & Co 2004

Disponible en FEA - Fac. Econ. Adm. Contab. e Atuária ACERVO DELFIM NETTO (A40.9.6 )(Obténgalo)

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Flesh in the Age of Reason
Autor: Roy Porter 1946-2002
Materias: English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Human body in literature; Enlightenment -- Great Britain; Mind and body in literature; Rationalism in literature; History of Medicine, 18th Cent -- Great Britain; LITERATURA INGLESA -- SÉCULO 18; Human Body; Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics); Literature, Modern -- history -- Great Britain; Philosophy; Sociology, Medical -- history -- Great Britain; History of Medicine, Early Modern -- Great Britain; Littérature anglaise -- 18e siècle -- Histoire et critique; Corps humain dans la littérature; Siècle des lumières -- Grande-Bretagne; Esprit et corps dans la littérature; Rationalisme dans la littérature; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century; Grande-Bretagne -- Vie intellectuelle -- 18e siècle; 1700 - 1799
Notas: Includes bibliographical references (p. 475-555) and index.
Descripción: 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"--p. [2] of jacket.
Editor: New York W.W. Norton & Co
Fecha de creación: 2004
Formato: xviii, 573 p 25 cm.
Idioma: Inglés

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