The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "long eighteenth century, " from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution. Ten outstanding scholars investigate the complex mind-body relationship in a variety of Enlightenment contexts—science, medicine, philosophy, literature, and everyday society. No other recent book provides such an in-depth, suggestive resource for philosophers, literary critics, intellectual and social historians, and all who are interested in Enlightenment studies.
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Table of contents
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF PLATES
- PREFACE
- CONTRIBUTORS
- EPIGRAPHS
- PART ONE. Theories of Mind and Body
- 1. Introduction: Toward a Natural History of Mind and Body
- 2. Barely Touching: A Social Perspective on Mind and Body
- 3. Locke, Hume, and Modern Moral Theory: A Legacy of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Philosophies of Mind
- PART TWO. Mind and Body in Practice: Physiology, Literature, Medicine
- 4. Thomas Willis and His Circle: Brain and Mind in Seventeenth-Century Medicine
- 5. Running Out of Matter: The Body Exercised in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
- 6. Of Masks and Mills: The Enlightened Doctor and His Frightened Patient
- PART THREE. The Politics of Mind and Body: Radical Practitioners and Revolutionary Doctors
- 7. States of Mind: Enlightenment and Natural Philosophy
- 8. The Marquis de Sade and the Discourses of Pain: Literature and Medicine at the Revolution
- 9. Mind and Body in the Clinic: Philippe Pinel, Alexander Crichton, Dominique Esquirol, and the Birth of Psychiatry
- PART FOUR. The Jewish Question
- 10. Medicine, Racism, Anti-Semitism: A Dimension of Enlightenment Culture
- PART FIVE. Suggestions for Further Reading
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- INDEX
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