Mirages of the selfe : patterns of personhood in ancient and early modern Europe /
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2003.
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Table of 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?