Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind

by George Makari

Book Overview

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

In this groundbreaking work, award-winning historian George Makari shows how writers, philosophers, physicians,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393059650
• ISBN13: 9780393059656
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.2" x 9.4"