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Bevat de naam: Noga Arikha

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Il libro si pone come biografia storica, ma meglio sarebbe definirlo romanzo storico d'intrattenimento. L'uso e l'abuso del discorso diretto da una parte e l'assordante tacere circa importanti vicende storiche accadute dall'altra vietano recisamente di catalogare l'opera come biografia storica. Giudizi recisi degli autori su personaggi storici, inoltre, lasciano il tempo che trovano, tanto più perchè emessi senza giustificazione alcuna. Nessun accenno invece sulla fonte dei soldi che Luciano impiegò generosamente per il mantenimento del suo elevato tenore di vita. Per finire, sono riscontrabili innumerevoli imprecisioni e sciatterie ed interi periodi letteralmente incomprensibili, sia in relazione al contesto, sia se presi isolatamente.… (meer)
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fortunae | Nov 13, 2011 |
A history of Western thought seen through the lens of medical theory and practice. What is health? What causes illness? How can illness be cured? Can illness be cured forever - conquering mortality? In order to consider these questions, thinkers imagined and invented concepts of the soul, the mind, and the fluids that sustained them. As Arikha makes connections betwixt and between science, religion, and philosophy, she has much to say about the human tendency toward patternicity, about the gaps between empirical, pragmatic healing and scholastic beliefs, about alchemy, psychology, and magical thinking.
"A humour is literally a fluid -- humon in Greek, (h)umor in Latin -- and bodily humours are fluids within a living organism. In the West, the theory developed that the human body was constituted of four of these humours, all central to its functioning. Phlegm was one of them; the three others were yellow bile, black bile, and blood." (xviii)
"Humours now remain familiar mostly metaphorically.... But humours do not survive just as linguistic habits: this book argues that their explanatory power has actually never gone away. It tells how and why this is, bringing them back to light, delving beneath the names we give to states of mind, to illnesses, and to the invisible world beneath our skin. It shows how humours have been recycled, continually reappearing in new guises, ever-present within evolving scientific systems and medical cultures." (xix)
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