Chapter eight. The Public Materiality of Being Human Galen and Medical Traditions

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Illustrations xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. A Note on the Text xix
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter one. Essences of Glass, Histories of Humans 26
8. PART ONE Assays and Arguments in Antiquity
9. Chapter two. A Cock for Asclepius: Plato, the Hippocratics and Aristotle 67
10. Chapter three. Excursus on Will and Passibility 98
11. Chapter four. Cicero’s Person, Passible Minds and Real Worlds 120
12. Chapter five. Senecan Surroundings 139
13. Chapter six. How Were Slaves Persons? 162
14. Chapter seven. How Was Personhood Gendered? 182
15. Chapter eight. The Public Materiality of Being Human Galen and Medical Traditions 212
16. Chapter nine. Two-Timed Ipseities and Speaking Their Mind: Augustine 241
17. Excursus on the Middle Ages
18. Chapter ten. Measuring Tensions in the Medieval Microcosm 269
19. PART TWO Petrarch through Descartes
20. Chapter eleven. “Multum a me ipso differre compulsus sum” 303
21. Chapter twelve. “Sparsa anime fragmenta recolligam” 331
22. Chapter thirteen. Surrounded Selves and Public Being Sixteenth-Century Strains 353
23. Chapter fourteen. Persons, Passions, Pictures Loyola with Alberti 381
24. Chapter fifteen. Hélisenne’s Story Collective Love, Singular Anger 404
25. Chapter sixteen. Public Subject, Personal Passion Montaigne 440
26. Chapter seventeen. Descartes, Collective Tradition and Personal Agency 469
27. Chapter eighteen. Selfehood, Political Community and a “Cartesian” Future? 488
28. Conclusion 519
29. Bibliography 529
30. Index 585