The Languages of Psyche : Mind and Body in Enlightenment Thought : Clark Library lectures, 1985-1986 / edited by G. S. Rousseau
Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 1990. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #426722
ISBN: 0520070445
Physical description; 502 pages : 27 plates. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-462) and index. Contents; 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. Subjects; Mind and body History. Enlightenment. Psychophysiology history. Ethics history. Psychosomatic Medicine history.
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