A history of the heart [[electronic resource] /] / Ole M. Høystad

• Autore: Høystad O. M
• Pubblicazione: London, : Reaktion, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4
• Soggetto topico: Human body in popular culture; Heart in art; Heart in literature; Heart - Mythology; Heart - Symbolic aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• 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 Heart14. 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: A history of the heart
• ISBN: 1-282-89309-2; 9786612893094; 1-86189-833-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459268003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II