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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Ole M Høystad |
ISBN: | 9781861893116 1861893116 9781861894052 1861894058 |
OCLC Number: | 488290057 |
Language Note: | Translated from the Norwegian. |
Notes: | Originally published: 2007. |
Description: | 254 s. : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Preface 7 Introduction 9 PART 1 THE HEART IN DIFFERENT CULTURES 1 The World of Gilgamesh 19 2 Ancient Egypt 24 3 The Complex Man of Antiquity 33 4 The Heart in the Bible and in Christianity 57 5 Islam's Culture of the Heart 79 6 The Aztecs -- Why So Heartless? 95 7 Norse Anthropology 101 PART 2 THE BATTLE FOR THE WESTERN HEART 8 The Emotional Turn in the High Middle Ages 111 9 The New Subject 151 10 Montaigne: Man is his Own Work 157 11 From the Renaissance and Alchemy to the Romantic Era 169 12 Shakespeare and the Heart of Darkness 174 13 Rousseau -- Philosopher of the Heart 191 14 Herder and the Expressivist Turn 200 15 Faustian Goethe 204 16 The Disenchantment and Re-enchantment of the Heart 212 Coda: The Emotional Cycle 230 References 239 Bibliography 243 Photo Acknowledgements 249 Index 251. |
Other Titles: | Hjertets kulturhistorie frå antikken til vår tid. |
Responsibility: | Ole M. Høystad. |
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Publisher Synopsis
A History of the Heart is about far more than the changing representation of this most charismatic organ. Indeed, the ease with which the central storyline opens into a wide-ranging intellectual history of Western culture is the book's chief delight and major achievement ... beautifully presented Times Higher Education Supplement This is the first study of the representation of the human heart in English from the earliest writings to the present day, a hugely ambitious project which, employing a "history of mentalities" methodology, is also a provocative personal philosophical history of largely western concepts of life, the body, nature, ethics, language, culture and the self. Social History of Medicine an entertaining, clearly- written and knowledgeable tour de force through European intellectual history Suddeutsche Zeitung Hoystad brings us to the essence of mankind Die Zeit Hoystad can play a linguistically subtle tune of scholarly brilliance Neue Zuricher Zeitung Read more...

