Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-555) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Flesh in the Age of Reason

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

53940544

Responsibility statement

Roy Porter ; foreword by Simon Schama

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

Table Of 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

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