SOUL MACHINE

A brilliant and comprehensive history of the creation of the modern Western mind.Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modern ity, 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, and anatom...[Read more]