A history of the heart /

The heart not only drives our physical life, but throughout human history it has also been viewed as the seat of our deepest emotions. It has figured hugely if metaphorically in nearly every aspect of human civilization, and as the unending subject of literature, music and art. Yet until now there h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Høystad, O. M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Norwegian
Publicado: London : Reaktion, 2007.
Temas:
Geistesgeschichte.
Heart > Symbolic aspects.
Heart in art.
Heart in literature.
Heart > Mythology.
Human body in popular culture.
Heart > history
Cœur dans l'art.
Cœur dans la littérature.
Corps humain dans la culture populaire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Heart in art
Heart in literature
Heart > Mythology
Heart > Symbolic aspects
Human body in popular culture
Herz
Hart.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The world of Gilgamesh
  • Ancient Egypt
  • The complex man of antiquity
  • The heart in the Bible and in Christianity
  • Islam's culture of the heart
  • The Aztecs : why so heartless?
  • Norse anthropology
  • The emotional turn in the High Middle Ages
  • The new subject
  • Montaigne : man is his own work
  • From the Renaissance and alchemy to the Romantic era
  • Shakespeare and the heart of darkness
  • Rousseau : philosopher of the heart
  • Herder and the expressivist turn
  • Faustian Goethe
  • The disenchantment and re-enchantment of the heart
  • The emotional cycle.

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