Mirages of the selfe
Subtitle: patterns of personhood in ancient and early modern Europe
By: Timothy J. Reiss
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 608
Subjects: Self (Philosophy) -- Europe -- History -- To 1800; Philosophical anthropology -- Europe -- History -- To 1800
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-584) and index
Table of contents: title: Essences of glass, histories of humans; title: A cock for Aesclepius : Plato, the Hippocratics, and Aristotle; title: Excursus on will and passibility; title: Cicero's person, passible minds, and real worlds; title: Senecan surroundings; title: How were slaves persons?; title: How was personhood gendered?; title: The public materiality of being human : Galen and medical traditions; title: Two-timed ipseities and speaking their mind : Augustine; title: Excursus on the middle ages; title: Measuring tensions in the medieval microcosm; title: Multum a me ipso differe compulsus sum; title: Sparsa anime fragmenta recolligam; title: Surrounded selves and public being : sixteenth-century strains; title: Persons, passions, pictures : Loyola with Alberti; title: Hélisenne's story : collective love, singular anger; title: Public subject, personal passion : Montaigne; title: Descartes, collective tradition, and personal agency; title: Selfehood, political community, and a "Cartesian" future?