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Roy Porter

 
9780393326963: Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul (Revised)
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ISBN 10: 0393326969 ISBN 13: 9780393326963
Editorial: W. W. Norton, 2005

Sinopsis

In this "readable and humane book" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), the late historian Roy Porter traces the course of man's philosophical journey from the superstitious, spiritually obsessed Dark Ages to our modern perspective, based on reason and grounded in the body. He demonstrates how the explosion of rational thought and scientific innovation during the Enlightenment began to change our understanding of the flesh and its relation to the soul. No longer simply a "mortal coil," the body eventually became the location, and source, of our conscious selves. Porter examines this paradigm shift through the eyes of the great thinkers of history, from Descartes to Voltaire to Lord Byron, summarizing and explicating their beliefs "in a prose that leaps resplendently from the page" (Harper's).

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Roy Porter (1946--2002) was professor of the history of medicine at University College, London. His books include Blood and Guts, The Creation of the Modern World, Flesh in the Age of Reason, and The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award.

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Editorial
W. W. Norton
Año de publicación
2005
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0393326969
ISBN 13 
9780393326963
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Número de páginas
594
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ISBN 10:  0393050750 ISBN 13:  9780393050752
Editorial: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2004
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