Mirages of the selfe : patterns of personhood in ancient and early modern Europe / Timothy J. Reiss.

Author/creator Reiss, Timothy J., 1942-
Format Book
Publication InfoStanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.
Descriptionxviii, 608 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Self (Philosophy)--Europe. --History. --To 1800.
Philosophical anthropology--Europe. --History. --To 1800.

Contents 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?
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [529]-584) and index.
LCCN 2002014997
ISBN080474565X (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks BD438.5 .R45 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold