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Author Makari, George, author.

Title Soul machine : the invention of the modern mind / George Makari.

Publication Info. New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2015]

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Location Call No. Status
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  128.2 MAK    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  128.2 MAKARI    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  128.209 MAKARI    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  128.2 MAK    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xvi, 656 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [513]-597) and index.
Contents A soirée with Mr. Spirit and Mr. Flesh -- Science and the thing that thinks -- Witches, melancholics, and fanatics -- A crisis of conscience -- "Myself in a storm" -- The sagacious Locke -- Bedlam in Britannia -- Sympathy, idea, nerve -- The cure of a lunatic king -- The French sensationalists -- Vitalism, the missing link -- Honest Jean-Jacques and the morals of sensibility -- Dr. Mesmer's invisible fire -- Journey to the end of reason -- Citizens and and alienists -- Kant and the age of self-criticism -- Rhapsodies for psyche -- The promise of phrenology -- The mind eclipsed.
Summary A comprehensive history of the creation of the modern Western mind recounts how crises in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to medical, literary and philosophical questions about the nature of human inner life. --Publisher
Subject Philosophy of mind -- History.
Reason -- History.
Rationalism -- History.
Civilization.
Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
Philosophy of mind. (OCoLC)fst01060840
Rationalism. (OCoLC)fst01090275
Reason. (OCoLC)fst01091272
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780393059656 (hardcover)
0393059650 (hardcover)
Standard No. 99963702355
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