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Mirages of the Selfe : Patterns of Personhood in Ancient and Early Modern Europe /
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,...
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on the Text
- Introduction
- Chapter one. Essences of Glass, Histories of Humans
- PART ONE Assays and Arguments in Antiquity
- Chapter two. A Cock for Asclepius: Plato, the Hippocratics and Aristotle
- Chapter three. Excursus on Will and Passibility
- Chapter four. Cicero's Person, Passible Minds and Real Worlds
- Chapter five. Senecan Surroundings
- Chapter six. How Were Slaves Persons?
- Chapter seven. How Was Personhood Gendered?
- Chapter eight. The Public Materiality of Being Human Galen and Medical Traditions
- Chapter nine. Two-Timed Ipseities and Speaking Their Mind: Augustine
- Excursus on the Middle Ages
- Chapter ten. Measuring Tensions in the Medieval Microcosm
- PART TWO Petrarch through Descartes
- Chapter eleven. "Multum a me ipso differre compulsus sum"
- Chapter twelve. "Sparsa anime fragmenta recolligam"
- Chapter thirteen. Surrounded Selves and Public Being Sixteenth-Century Strains
- Chapter fourteen. Persons, Passions, Pictures Loyola with Alberti
- Chapter fifteen. Hélisenne's Story Collective Love, Singular Anger
- Chapter sixteen. Public Subject, Personal Passion Montaigne
- Chapter seventeen. Descartes, Collective Tradition and Personal Agency
- Chapter eighteen. Selfehood, Political Community and a "Cartesian" Future?
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index