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- Title: Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul
- Author: Roy Porter Simon Schama
- ISBN: 9780393326963
- Page: 385
- Format: Paperback
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Excellent review of key thinkers in the Eighteenth Century regarding bodies, souls and the relationship between them In addition to the usual suspects Hume, Kant, etc , he also has chapters on literary figures Samuel Johnson, Byron, Edward Gibbon and others and subtopics like illness, madness, death and sex Not an easy read but not an obscure one either He does an excellent job at the beginning of the book in giving the philosophical background to the debates He also has a very good, 75 page bib [...]
Contrary to the way this book is presented by the publisher and framed by Porter, it is a literary study, using literary texts broadly defined to include Locke Shaftesbury almost exclusively as evidence I adore literary scholarship, but here I can t shake the discrepancy between what s promised and what s delivered The book, although a useful synthetic study, is for me ultimately a disappointment.
Covers the intellectual history of mind soul body in philosophy, religion, science, and literature.Favorite quotation from Peacock There are two reasons for drinking one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it Wine is the elixir of life The soul, says St Augustine, cannot live in drought What is death Dust and ashes There is nothing so dry What is life Spirit What is Spirit Wine.
extremely well researched and well written book about, as the title suggests, the mind and the body and perhaps the link between the 2 gives some very interesting opinions from well known authors like locke, swift and shaftesbury etc etc The book focusses on the 18th century period which for many represented the beginnings of a move away from the church towards logic and facts very interesting read with lots to take in recommended for someone with a thirst for knowledge.
This was the book Porter was born to write There are many books purporting to tell the history of the modern self This is surely one of the best of them Porter was a historian of medicine, with a passion for literature and philosophy, and a stylish pen His approach to the self is dazzling, because he takes so many different perspectives Sometimes he considers a particular person, the life they lived, the idea of self that they governed their thoughts and actions by e.g Samuel Johnson Sometimes h [...]
Having been recommended this book by a professor of sociology, I had high hopes for Flesh in the Age of Reason, and I was not disappointed Porter deftly handles multiple facets of philosophy around the time of the enlightenment, weaving together the ideas of well known theorists on the links between mind, soul, spirit and the body From Descarte s reasoning on the duality of the mind and body, providing a vehicle for discourse still relating to religion through to later atheists ideas, Porter nev [...]
These were the guys who thought for our freedom Porter is original not only in his ability to explicate eighteenth century thinking in plain English, but especially for getting under the skin of writers and thinkers like Locke, Johnson, Goodwin, Blake and many many others Instead of criticising from an ideological base, he empathizes with the kind of mind wrenching psychological pain they went through to liberate consciousness from centuries of church state dogma We owe them so much, and Porter [...]
This is the last book written by Professor Roy Porter formerly of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine He died a week after completing it It is a lively account of the philosophy of medicine during the Age of Reason Enlightenment and contains some rather gruesome anecdotes about great doctors as well as an insight into their thinking on the subject of human suffering A very entertaining book with an excellent overview of the history of the period, which Porter always brought to lif [...]
A lovely examination of the philosophy of the mind, the self, and the body Not something I d recommend to an entirely casual reader, for the tone is rather scholarly and geared to someone with an interest in the subject, but for anyone who enjoys Roy Porter s work and Enlightenment philosophy though a background in the era is certainly not required , then this book is excellent I particularly enjoyed Edward Gibbon Fame and Mortality , Sexing the Self , Unreason , Psychologizing the Self , Depen [...]
I wanted so much to like this book, and cannot help but feel that my rating reflects not so much the books failure but my own I liked the firt portion, though it could be incredibly dense The second portion was accessible, but I felt as though the focus wandered this is when I stopped reading Mostly, I didn t want my rating to go unannotated as it is such a deviation from the standard rating Mark it up to my having been away from intellectual history for so very long.
A very interesting read on the changing views on the human body and religion in the 17 and 18th centuries It takes us through the thoughts of some heavy hitters during that time period Some chapters were interesting than others What surprises me from these early thinkers is that religion still has such a foothold in the world today especially in the U.S.
I can t recommend this book highly enough to someone with intersecting interests in medicine, philosophy and intellectual history of the eighteenth century Roy Porter is not only a thorough researcher who presents a volume of carefully compiled ideas and arguments, but he is also thoroughly readable His enthusiasm and interest are infectious It s a brilliant read.
A good tour of the complexities of the subject but sadly not his best work Roy Porter will be sadly missed as one of the most engaging lecturers I have ever had the pleasure to hear A man who could speak so eloquently, interestingly and excitingly about History that you would completely forget his dishevelled appearance and the massive stain on his shirt.
How the Enlightenment provided a lens through which we can best see the profound shift from the theocentric, otherworldly, Dark Ages to the modern, earthly body centered world we live in today This was dense, but a very good book.
This is a very interesting book which is hard going despite being well, even elegantly written This is because his thinking is deep and requires the reader to think about what has just been read and to order thinking accordingly.
Three stars is actually rather kind Really wanted to like this book as the subject and author are favorites of mine Sadly, there is no way to ignore the lack of editing or disjointed tone.
A very interesting study of the attitudes toward the body as Europe moved from the Christian dominated Middle Ages and Renaissance to the Enlightenment A witty writer.
A great tour through modern Western civilization s development of SELF.