The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece
Publisher: Princeton University Press | ISBN: 0691138990 | edition 2010 | PDF | 392 pages | 2,6 mb
Publisher: Princeton University Press | ISBN: 0691138990 | edition 2010 | PDF | 392 pages | 2,6 mb
The Symptom and the Subject takes an in-depth look at how the physical body first emerged in the West as both an object of knowledge and a mysterious part of the self. Beginning with Homer, moving through classical-era medical treatises, and closing with studies of early ethical philosophy and Euripidean tragedy, this book rewrites the traditional story of the rise of body-soul dualism in ancient Greece.