Cultural Anatomies of the Heart in Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, and Harvey

AvMarjorie O'Rourke Boyle

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

This book probes beneath modern scientific and sentimental concepts of the heart to discover its past mysteries. Historical hearts evidenced essential aspects of human existence that still endure in modern thought and experience of political community, psychological mentality, and physical vitality.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-09-24
Mått:148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt:378 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:171
Upplaga:18001
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319936529

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Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle is an intellectual and cultural historian specializing in Christian thought from the biblical to the early modern eras. She was early awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in religion.

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“Cultural Anatomies of the Heart in Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, and Harvey … promise an exhaustive march through the cultural history of the heart by way of the varied thinkers … Boyle aims to creatively juxtapose the natural-scientific study of the cardiac vessel and the multiple valences of the ‘heart’ across two millennia of philosophical reflection.” (Sean Hannan, Reading Religion, readingreligion.org, May 18, 2019)

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction.- Aristotle’s Cardiac Vessel.- Augustine’s Law of the Heart: Theives’ Honor.- Aquinas’s Law of the Heart: Natural Reason.- John Calvin, Heart in Hand.- Harvey, by Hercules! The Hero of the Blood’s Circulation.