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- Publication Name
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- ISBN
- 9780393059656
- Book Title
- Soul Machine : the Invention of the Modern Mind
- Item Length
- 1in
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- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Publication Year
- 2015
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
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- Genre
- Psychology, Medical, History, Philosophy
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- Civilization, Mental Health, Movements / Rationalism, History
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- 0.7in
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- 38.7 Oz
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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. In this groundbreaking work, award-winning historian George Makari shows how writers, philosophers, physicians, and anatomists worked to construct notions of the mind as not an ethereal thing, but a natural one. From the ascent of Oliver Cromwell to the fall of Napoleon, seminal thinkers like Hobbes, Locke, Diderot, and Kant worked alongside often-forgotten brain specialists, physiologists, and alienists in the hopes of mapping the inner world. Conducted in a cauldron of political turmoil, these frequently shocking, always embattled efforts would give rise to psychiatry, mind sciences such as phrenology, and radically new visions of the self. Further, they would be crucial to the establishment of secular ethics and political liberalism. Boldly original, wide-ranging, and brilliantly synthetic, Soul Machine gives us a masterful, new account of the making of the modern Western mind.
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Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393059650
ISBN-13
9780393059656
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Book Title
Soul Machine : the Invention of the Modern Mind
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Civilization, Mental Health, Movements / Rationalism, History
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Psychology, Medical, History, Philosophy
Number of Pages
672 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
1in
Item Height
0.2in
Item Width
0.7in
Item Weight
38.7 Oz
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Bd161
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Remarkably vivid. . . . It is still true that nothing less than the meaning of life depends on how we think of minds, souls, persons, and selves. Makari's book is a fine reminder of a contested space and a contested debate that we continue to inhabit after all these many years., Ira Katnelson's Fear Itself is an extraordinary book that will change our understanding of the New Deal. He has shown the ways in which racism has shaped American life in the age of the Great Depression, and among other things he has brought the U.S. Congress to the front of the New Deal. It is a remarkable work of scholarship., "In Fear Itself, Ira Katznelson'has produced an excellent work of synthesis about the political and economic terms of the New Deal. It forms a bittersweet homage to the period he has long thought of as the pivotal moment in the development of both American democracy and the US national security state, founded on foreign and domestic policy designed around the "containment" of threats".... His powerful and well-paced account begins in 1933 at the start of FDR's extended presidency and ends with the inauguration of Dwight Eisenhower 20 years later"... anyone wanting an intelligent guide to the ideas that still shape its place in our own fractious times should begin by reading this book.", George Makari has written an all-encompassing and invigorated account of how we have come to think about the acts of thinking and feeling. This is a book brimming with knowledge and lucid observations, one that helps us to understand the evolution of our contemporary sensibility., Engrossing... It is an exhilarating pleasure to lose yourself in this old-fashioned example of original historical scholarship. Fear Itself is a sprawling, ambitious book that offers illuminating insights on nearly every page. Among Katznelson's gifts is the one most valuable to readers and most in danger of extinction in the American academy: He writes clear, energetic prose without a whiff of academic jargon or pretension... Entertaining and enlightening., Fear Itself is a provocative look at how modern America--created three-quarters of a century ago by the very Southern barons who were so important a part of the New Deal --was shaped. We think of history as a settled thing, tucked safely in a faraway past. This book is a reminder of how very surprising it can be., In this sweeping, authoritative, and lively account, George Makari chronicles the emergence of the modern mind as an appealing yet unstable object of scientific inquiry, and shows why the long-standing goal of establishing boundaries between it and the brain and even the soul has proven so elusive. Illuminating and highly engaging., A wholly new approach to the New Deal takes history we thought we knew and makes it even richer and more complex. In this deeply erudite, beautifully written history, Katznelson... adopts an expansive view of the New Deal, extending it to the end of the Truman administration., An electrifying narrative of the intellectual disputes that gave rise to the Western conception of the mind . . . highly engaging., In the replacement of the ancient doctrine of the soul with the secular conception of the mind, Makari discerns an epoch-making shift . . . an impressively multifaceted narrative., George Makari's extraordinary Soul Machine is the urgent narrative of an idea. Firmly grounded in the bloody politics and intellectual battles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this lucid, brilliant book tells the complex, exciting, and passionate story of something that continues to baffle us: the human mind., "Brilliant... One of the many strengths of Fear Itself is that it brings Congress back to center stage in the New Deal era. American politics past tend to be retrospectively seen through the lens of the presidency, an impulse that is particularly understandable with respect to FDR, who almost certainly did more to shape the political landscape than any politician of the last century... One of the many virtues of this masterful book is that it rescues the tragedies and ironies of the New Deal from the facile "liberal fascism" taunts from the likes of Jonah Goldberg.", An enlightening and gracefully written account of a vital aspect of our history that few of us are aware of--the replacement of the soul by the mind, and the struggle to understand its foundations in the brain., The remarkable achievement of George Makari's Soul Machine is to show how differently . . . many of the ideas we take for granted about our own minds are relatively recent in origin. . . . This book succeeds where few others have., An erudite exploration of the high-stakes struggle to make space in the modern world for that part of our being we call our minds., Brilliant, compendious . . . Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind is essential reading. The story he tells so engagingly is of a vast, polyphonic argument about what it is to be a human being., Positing that the New Deal preserved liberal democracy, but at the expense of compromises with illiberal forces, Katznelson's hefty history weighs other historians' interpretations of the New Deal as it knowledgeably advances its own.
Copyright Date
2015
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2015-013988
Dewey Decimal
128/.209
Intended Audience
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Dewey Edition
23
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