Cultural Anatomies of the Heart in Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, and Harvey

ISBN-13: 9783319936529 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 171 str.

Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle

Opis

This book probes beneath modern scientific and sentimental hearts to discover its past mysteries: hearts as the furnaces of the blood in the anatomies of Aristotle and Harvey;

Recenzje

"Cultural Anatomies of the Heart in Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, and Harvey ... promise an exhaustive march through the cultural history of the heart by way of the varied thinkers ... Boyle aims to creatively juxtapose the natural-scientific study of the cardiac vessel and the multiple valences of the 'heart' across two millennia of philosophical reflection." (Sean Hannan, Reading Religion, readingreligion.org, May 18, 2019)

Spis treści

Introduction

Aristotle’s Cardiac Vessel

Augustine’s Law of the Heart: Theives’ Honor

Aquinas’s Law of the Heart: Natural Reason

John Calvin, Heart in Hand

Harvey, by Hercules! The Hero of the Blood’s Circulation

Bibliography

O autorze

Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle is an intellectual and cultural historian specializing in Christian thought from the biblical to the early modern eras. She was early awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in religion.

Blurb

This book probes beneath modern scientific and sentimental concepts of the heart to discover its past mysteries. Historical hearts evidenced essential aspects of human existence that still endure in modern thought and experience of political community, psychological mentality, and physical vitality. Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle revises ordinary assumptions about the heart with original interdisciplinary research on religious beliefs and theological and philosophical ideas. Her book uncovers the thought of  Aristotle, William Harvey, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and John Calvin as it relates to the heart. It analyzes Augustine’s outlaw heart in cultural deviance from biblical law; Aquinas’s problematic argument for the permanence of the natural law in the heart; and Calvin’s advocacy for an affective heart re-created by the Spirit from its fallen nature. This book of cultural anatomies is the climax of her dozen years of publications on the heart.