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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rousseau, G. S. (George Sebastian), editor.

Series:

Clark Library Professorship, UCLA Series ; Volume 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mind and body--History.

Mind and body.

Enlightenment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (502 p.) : 27 plates

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "long eighteenth century," from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution. Ten outstanding scholars investigate the complex mind-body relationship in a variety of Enlightenment contexts—science, medicine, philosophy, literature, and everyday society. No other recent book provides such an in-depth, suggestive resource for philosophers, literary critics, intellectual and social historians, and all who are interested in Enlightenment studies.

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520910430

0520910435

9780585033938

0585033935

OCLC:

1149481512