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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 understanding of the flesh and its relation to the soul. No longer simply a "mortal coil," the body eventually became the location, and source, of our conscious selves. Porter examines this paradigm shift through the eyes of the great thinkers of history, from Descartes to Voltaire to Lord Byron, summarizing and explicating their beliefs "in a prose that leaps resplendently from the page" (Harper's).

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  • Title Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul (Revised)
  • Author Roy Porter
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Revised ed.
  • Pages 594
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publication date 2005-08-01
  • ISBN 9780393326963 / 0393326969
  • Weight 1.79 lbs (0.81 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.1 x 1.42 in (23.42 x 15.49 x 3.61 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Body, Human, in literature, English literature - 18th century - History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 820.935

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  • New York Times, 10/30/2005, Page 24
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