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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785206003321

Autore

Høystad O. M

Titolo

A history of the heart / / Ole M. Høystad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Reaktion, , 2007

ISBN

1-282-89309-2

9786612893094

1-86189-833-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Disciplina

306.4

Soggetti

Human body in popular culture

Heart in art

Heart in literature

Heart - Mythology

Heart - Symbolic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A History of the Heart Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Contents (ii); Preface; Introduction; Part I: The Heart in Different Cultures; 1. The World of Gilgamesh; 2. Ancient Egypt; 3. The Complex Man of Antiquity; 4. The Heart in the Bible and in Christianity; 5. Islam's Culture of the Heart; 6. The Aztecs - Why So Heartless?; 7. Norse Anthropology; Part II: The Battle for the Western Heart; 8. The Emotional Turn in the High Middle Ages; 9. The New Subject; 10. Montaigne: Man is his Own Work; 11. From the Renaissance and Alchemy to the Romantic Era; 12. Shakespeare and the Heart of Darkness

13. Rousseau - Philosopher of the Heart; 14. Herder and the Expressivist Turn; 15. Faustian Goethe; 16. The Disenchantment and Re-enchantment of the Heart; Coda: The Emotional Cycle; References; Bibliography; Photo Acknowledgements; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A fascinating investigation into the heart, the locus of grief, joy, and power, through human culture, history, myth and science.