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Mirages of the Selfe - Patterns of Personhood in Ancient and Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
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Mirages of the Selfe - Patterns of Personhood in Ancient and Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
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Through extensive readings in philosophical, legal, medical, and
imaginative writing, this book explores notions and experiences of
being a person from European antiquity to Descartes. It offers
quite new interpretations of what it was to be a person--to
experience who-ness--in other times and places, involving new
understandings of knowing, willing, and acting, as well as of
political and material life, the play of public and private,
passions and emotions.
The trajectory the author reveals reaches from the ancient sense of
personhood as set in a totality of surroundings inseparable from
the person, to an increasing sense of impermeability to the world,
in which anger has replaced love in affirming a sense of self. The
author develops his analysis through an impressive range of
authors, languages, and texts: from Cicero, Seneca, and Galen;
through Avicenna, Hildegard of Bingen, and Heloise and Abelard; to
Petrarch, Montaigne, and Descartes.
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