Mirages of the selfe : patterns of personhood in ancient and early modern Europe /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reiss, Timothy J., 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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?