A History of the Heart by Ole Hystad
Charts how the heart has signified our essential desires, whether for love and passion in the medieval excesses of troubadour poetry and chivalric idealism, the body-soul dualism propounded by the Enlightenment, or even the modern notions of individualism expressed in the works of thinkers such as Nietzsche and Foucault.
A History of the Heart is about far more than the changing representation of this most charismatic organIndeed, 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
Ole M. Høystad is Professor of Cultural Studies at Telemark University College in Norway, and currently Visiting Professor of Cultural Studies and History at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781861893116 |
| ISBN 10 | 1861893116 |
| Title | A History of the Heart |
| Author | Ole Hystad |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Reaktion Books |
| Year published | 2007-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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