Flesh in the Age of Reason
Roy Porter (Author), Simon Schama
"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
Print Book, English, 2004
1st American ed View all formats and editions
W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 2004
History
xviii, 573 pages ; 25 cm
9780393050752, 9780393326963, 0393050750, 0393326969
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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
Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2003