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Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind
George Makari
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Description for Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind
Paperback. A brilliant and comprehensive history of the creation of the modern Western mind. Num Pages: 672 pages, 44 illustrations. BIC Classification: HPM; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 226 x 2. Weight in Grams: 522.
Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life. This is the story of how a new concept-the mind-emerged as a potential solution, one that was part soul and part machine but fully neither. George Makari shows how writers, philosophers, doctors and anatomists worked to construct notions of the mind as not an ethereal thing but a natural one. This became the basis of the mind sciences, liberal politics, secular ethics and radically new visions of ... Read more
Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life. This is the story of how a new concept-the mind-emerged as a potential solution, one that was part soul and part machine but fully neither. George Makari shows how writers, philosophers, doctors and anatomists worked to construct notions of the mind as not an ethereal thing but a natural one. This became the basis of the mind sciences, liberal politics, secular ethics and radically new visions of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
521g
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393353464
SKU
V9780393353464
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99-12
About George Makari
George Makari's Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis was published in 2008 to international acclaim. Makari is the director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry, professor of psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and adjunct professor at both Rockefeller University and Columbia University's Psychoanalytic Center. He lives in New York City.
Reviews for Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind
...highly engaging story...
The Economist Insightful, thought-provoking and encyclopaedic, Makari's book shows how we came to understand where the mind is located and something of its nature.
Nature ...engaging, powerful...
Times Higher Education ...an absorbing story, vast in scope and rich in quirky detail...
The Literary Review Soul ... Read more
The Economist Insightful, thought-provoking and encyclopaedic, Makari's book shows how we came to understand where the mind is located and something of its nature.
Nature ...engaging, powerful...
Times Higher Education ...an absorbing story, vast in scope and rich in quirky detail...
The Literary Review Soul ... Read more