Ebook {Epub PDF} Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours by Noga Arikha

 · “Passions and Tempers may excite passions and tempers in some of its readers, as a good work of intellectual history should. You will learn a lot from its pages.” —Washington Post. The humours—blood, phlegm, black bile, and choler—were substances thought to circulate within the body and determine a person’s health, mood, and www.doorway.run description: Reprint. Passions and tempers: a history of the humours Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Passions and tempers: a history of the humours by Arikha, Noga. Publication date Topics Body fluids, Mood (Psychology), Body Fluids, History of Medicine, Mental Disorders, Mental Disorders, Philosophy, Medical, Temperament PublisherUser Interaction Count: Noga Artkha takes up this fascinating topic in her book Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours. Arkha takes us all the way back to the Greeks and Romans and then slowly builds through the Middle Ages. The plot thickens and theories of temperament are challenged with the emergence Descartes dualistic ideas about the mind and the body and /5(41).

A scholarly examination of the persistence throughout history of thinking that personality and body type are linked to the presence in the body of four "humours.". Noga Artkha takes up this fascinating topic in her book Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours. Arkha takes us all the way back to the Greeks and Romans and then slowly builds through the Middle Ages. The plot thickens and theories of temperament are challenged with the emergence Descartes dualistic ideas about the mind and the body and. For most of history and across cultures people believed that their nature was determined by some combination of astrological influence and the proportion of liquids in the body. The latter was called temperament. Noga Artkha takes up this fascinating topic in her book Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours.

Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours. by. Noga Arikha. · Rating details · 85 ratings · 19 reviews. The humours—blood, phlegm, black bile, and choler—were substances thought to circulate within the body and determine a person's health, mood, and character. For example, an excess of black bile was considered a cause of melancholy. The theory of humours remained an inexact but powerful tool for centuries, surviving scientific changes and offering clarity to physicians. Arikha writes in Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours how the “experiences of joy, pain, anguish, and fear each had their temperature, their match in some sort of stuff in the body whose motion modulated the emotion.” In a broader way, however, there is something to be said in how the humors emphasized embodiment, the way it acknowledged how much of the emotional was in the physical. By SHERWIN B. NULAND. July 8, Noga Arikha’s “Passions and Tempers” illustrates some of the rewards and some of the pitfalls of historical scholarship. To Arikha’s immense credit, she.