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

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

Roy Porter, Simon Schama

592 pages first pub 2003 (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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