Reiss, Timothy J., 1942-

Mirages of the selfe patterns of personhood in ancient and early modern Europe / [electronic resource] : Timothy J. Reiss. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003. - xviii, 608 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-584) and index.

Essences of glass, histories of humans -- A cock for Aesclepius : Plato, the Hippocratics, and Aristotle -- Excursus on will and passibility -- Cicero's person, passible minds, and real worlds -- Senecan surroundings -- How were slaves persons? -- How was personhood gendered? -- The public materiality of being human : Galen and medical traditions -- Two-timed ipseities and speaking their mind : Augustine -- Excursus on the middle ages -- Measuring tensions in the medieval microcosm -- Multum a me ipso differe compulsus sum -- Sparsa anime fragmenta recolligam -- Surrounded selves and public being : sixteenth-century strains -- Persons, passions, pictures : Loyola with Alberti -- Hélisenne's story : collective love, singular anger -- Public subject, personal passion : Montaigne -- Descartes, collective tradition, and personal agency -- Selfehood, political community, and a "Cartesian" future?


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Self (Philosophy)--History--Europe--To 1800.
Philosophical anthropology--History.--Europe


Electronic books.

BD438.5 / .R45 2003eb

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