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Makari, George.
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Philosophy of mind -- History.
Reason -- History.
Rationalism -- History.
Civilization.
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Makari, George.
Philosophy of mind -- History.
Reason -- History.
Rationalism -- History.
Civilization.
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Soul machine : the invention of the modern mind / George Makari.
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Makari, George.
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2015]
Call #:
128
.209
M235s
Subjects
Philosophy of mind -- History.
Reason -- History.
Rationalism -- History.
Civilization.
ISBN:
9780393059656 (hc.)
0393059650 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
xvi, 656 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary:
"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. How a new concept -- the mind -- emerged as a potential solution, one that was part soul and part machine, but fully neither. Historian George Makari shows how writers, philosophers, physicians, and anatomists worked to construct notions of the mind as not an ethereal thing, but a natural one. From the ascent of Oliver Cromwell to the fall of Napoleon, seminal thinkers like Hobbes, Locke, Diderot, and Kant worked alongside often-forgotten brain specialists, physiologists, and alienists in the hopes of mapping the inner world. Conducted in a cauldron of political turmoil, these frequently shocking, always embattled efforts would give rise to psychiatry, mind sciences such as phrenology, and radically new visions of the self. They would be crucial to the establishment of secular ethics and political liberalism. Original, wide-ranging, and brilliantly synthetic, a masterful, new account of the making of the modern Western mind. George Makari's Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis was published in 2008 to international acclaim. Makari is a professor of psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
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