Soul Machine
The Invention of the Modern Mind
New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2015]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xvi, 656 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
A comprehensive history of the creation of the modern Western mind recounts how crises in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to medical, literary and philosophical questions about the nature of human inner life. --Publisher
Contents:
A soirée with Mr. Spirit and Mr. Flesh -- Science and the thing that thinks -- Witches, melancholics, and fanatics -- A crisis of conscience -- "Myself in a storm" -- The sagacious Locke -- Bedlam in Britannia -- Sympathy, idea, nerve -- The cure of a lunatic king -- The French sensationalists -- Vitalism, the missing link -- Honest Jean-Jacques and the morals of sensibility -- Dr. Mesmer's invisible fire -- Journey to the end of reason -- Citizens and and alienists -- Kant and the age of self-criticism -- Rhapsodies for psyche -- The promise of phrenology -- The mind eclipsed.
ISBN:
9780393059656
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PHILOSOPHY Mak | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.