Flesh in the Age of Reason

出版者:W. W. Norton & Company

作者:Roy Porter

页数:592

出版时间:2005-08-15

价格:USD 17.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780393326963

图书标签:思想史历史身体史HistoryBody/Flesh

"A heroic feat of scholarship."— New York Times Book Review 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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Porter 的晚年著作，修辞极其讲究。

Porter 的晚年著作，修辞极其讲究。

Porter 的晚年著作，修辞极其讲究。