Front cover image for Mirages of the selfe : patterns of personhood in ancient and early modern Europe

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

eBook, English, 2003
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2003
History
1 online resource (xviii, 608 pages) : illustrations
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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?