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Find more info., search and price compare for Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul by Roy Porter ; Simon Schama Binding: Paperback, 592 pages Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. Weight: 1.75 pound Dimension: H: 1.4 x L: 9.2 x W: 6.1 inches ISBN 10: 0393326969 ISBN 13: 9780393326963 Click here to search for this book and compare price at 40+ bookstores with AddALL.com! If you cannot find this book in our new and in print search, be sure to try our used and out of print search too! |
Book Description: 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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