Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul by Simon Schama, Roy Porter

Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul

Simon Schama, Roy Porter

592 pages • first pub 2003 (view editions)

nonfiction history philosophy science informative slow-paced
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In this "readable and humane book" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), the late historian Roy Porter traces the course of man's philosophical journey from the superstitious, spiritually obsessed Dark Ages to our modern perspective, based on reason an...

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