Soul Machine The Invention Of The Modern Mind George Makari by George Makari 9780393059656, 0393059650 instant download after payment.

A brilliant & comprehensive history of the creation of the modern Western mind.

Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority & 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 & part machine, but fully neither.

In this groundbreaking work, award-winning historian George Makari shows how writers, philosophers, physicians, & anatomists worked to construct notions of the mind as not an ethereal thing, but a natural one. From the ascent of Oliver Cromwell to the fall of Napoleon, seminal thinkers like Hobbes, Locke, Diderot, and Kant worked alongside often-forgotten brain specialists, physiologists, & alienists in the hopes of mapping the inner world. Conducted in a cauldron of political turmoil, these frequently shocking, always embattled efforts would give rise to psychiatry, mind sciences such as phrenology, & radically new visions of the self. Further, they would be crucial to the establishment of secular ethics & political liberalism. Boldly original, wide-ranging, & brilliantly synthetic, Soul Machine gives us a masterful, new account of the making of the modern Western mind.