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Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life. This is the story of how a new concept-the mind-emerged as a potential solution, one that was part soul and part machine but fully neither. George Makari, director of Cornell's Institute for the History of Psychiatry, shows how writers, philosophers, doctors, and anatomists worked to construct notions of the mind as not an ethereal thing, but a natural one. Conducted in a cauldron of political turmoil, their efforts spanned 150 years and would underwrite the birth of the mind sciences, liberal politics, secular ethics, and radically new visions of the self, society, the ordering of knowledge, and the sources of unreason. Boldly original and synthetic, Soul Machine is a masterful new history of the mind, madness, and the emergence of psychological man in the Western world.

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Book category Books in English Health & personal development Self-help & personal development Popular psychology

• Full title: Soul Machine
• Subtitle: The Invention of the Modern Mind
• Author: George Makari
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 672
• EAN: 9780393059656
• ISBN: 0393059650
• ID: 09365025
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Weight: 1102 g
• Dimensions: 288 × 243 × 51 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. November 2015

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