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Paperback The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece Book

ISBN: 0691163405

ISBN13: 9780691163406

The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece

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The Symptom and the Subject takes an in-depth look at how the physical body first emerged in the West as both an object of knowledge and a mysterious part of the self. Beginning with Homer, moving through classical-era medical treatises, and closing with studies of early ethical philosophy and Euripidean tragedy, this book rewrites the traditional story of the rise of body-soul dualism in ancient Greece. Brooke Holmes demonstrates that as...

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