Ebook {Epub PDF} Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul by Roy 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/5. · Our 16th president had a melancholic understanding that grappled with wisdom, what Roy Porter in Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul phrased as “Melancholy and spleen, those stigmata of true scholarly dedication.”. An ability to see the world as it is. 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 Cited by:
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Our 16th president had a melancholic understanding that grappled with wisdom, what Roy Porter in Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul phrased as “Melancholy and spleen, those stigmata of true scholarly dedication.”. An ability to see the world as it is. Nonfiction Book Review: Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul by Roy Porter, Author, Simon Schama, Foreword by W. W. Norton Company $ (p) ISBN This book is, or can be seen as, a sequel to his Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (). His overriding idea is that the British contribution to the Enlightenment is underestimated. Pace Jonathan Israel, I'm prepared to believe anything he says. But first and foremost Flesh in the Age of Reason is a treasure trove.
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