Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul (Revised)

In this "readable and humane book" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), the late historian Roy Porter traces...
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Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul (Revised) by Porter, Roy

Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul (Revised)

$451.64

Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul (Revised)

$451.64
Author: Roy Porter
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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).



Author: Roy Porter
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/01/2005
Pages: 594
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.79lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.10w x 1.42d
ISBN: 9780393326963


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 10/30/2005 pg. 24

About the Author
Porter, Roy: - 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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