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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495874003321

Titolo

The Languages of Psyche : Mind and Body in Enlightenment Thought : Clark Library lectures, 1985-1986 / / edited by G. S. Rousseau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [1990]

©1990

ISBN

0-520-91043-5

0-585-03393-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (502 p.) : 27 plates

Collana

Clark Library Professorship, UCLA Series ; ; Volume 12

Disciplina

128.209033

Soggetti

Mind and body - History

Enlightenment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF PLATES -- PREFACE -- CONTRIBUTORS -- EPIGRAPHS -- 1. Introduction: Toward a Natural History of Mind and Body -- 2. Barely Touching: A Social Perspective on Mind and Body -- 3. Locke, Hume, and Modern Moral Theory: A Legacy of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Philosophies of Mind -- 4. Thomas Willis and His Circle: Brain and Mind in Seventeenth-Century Medicine -- 5. Running Out of Matter: The Body Exercised in Eighteenth-Century Fiction -- 6. Of Masks and Mills: The Enlightened Doctor and His Frightened Patient -- 7. States of Mind: Enlightenment and Natural Philosophy -- 8. The Marquis de Sade and the Discourses of Pain: Literature and Medicine at the Revolution -- 9. Mind and Body in the Clinic: Philippe Pinel, Alexander Crichton, Dominique Esquirol, and the Birth of Psychiatry -- 10. Medicine, Racism, Anti-Semitism: A Dimension of Enlightenment Culture -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- INDEX