Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul
Roy Porter, (Foreword) Simon Schama
Language: English
Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2004
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The late British historian's culminating volume in his history of the Enlightenment. Starting with the grim Britain of the Civil War era, with its punishing sense of the body asa corrupt vessel for the soul, Porter charts how, through figures as diverse as Locke, Swift, Johnson and Gibbon, ideas about medicine, politics, and religion fundamentally changed notions of self, providing a sublimely orchestrated confrontation between the soul-oriented beliefs of the past and the body-centered knowledge of today. Bibliography, index. 574p.
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- Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul
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- Roy Porter, (Foreword) Simon Schama
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- W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication year
- 2004
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- Hardcover
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- English
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- 0393050750
- ISBN 13
- 9780393050752
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