Flesh in the Age of Reason: How the Enlightenment Transformed the Way We See Our Bodies and Souls by Roy Porter

Flesh in the Age of Reason: How the Enlightenment Transformed the Way We See Our Bodies and Souls

Roy Porter with Simon Schama

592 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy science informative slow-paced
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'As an introduction to early modern thinking and the impact of past ideas on present lives, this book can find few equals and no superiors. Porter is a witty, humane writer with an extraordinary vocabulary and a sparkling sense of fun. Whether he ...

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