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Soul machine : the invention of the modern mind
Résumé éditeur : "This book takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life. This is the story of how a new concept--the mind--emerged as a potential solution, on...
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | Soul machine : the invention of the modern mind / George Makari |
| Publié : |
New York, London :
W.W. Norton & Company
, C 2015 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (xvi-656 p.) |
| Sujets : |
- Part I. The lost souls of modernity
- 1. A Soirée with Mr Spirit and Mr Flesh
- 2. Science and the Thing That Thinks
- 3. Witches, Melancholics, and Fanatics
- 4. A Crisis of Conscience
- Part II. The English Mind
- 5. Myself in a Storm
- 6. The Sagacious Locke
- 7. Bedlam in Britannia
- 8. Sympathy, Idea, Nerve
- 9. The Cure of a Lunatic King
- Part III. From French esprit to alienation
- 10. The French Sensationalists
- 11. Vitalism the Missing Link
- 12. Honest Jean-Jacques and the Morals of Sensibility
- 13. Dr Mesmers Invisible Fire
- 14. Journey to the End of Reason
- 15. Citizens and Alienists
- Part IV. The serpent that ate its tail
- 16. Kant and the Age of SelfCriticism
- 17. Rhapsodies for Psyche
- 18. The Promise of Phrenology
- 19. The Mind Eclipsed