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SUMMARY:George J. Makari - Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind
DESCRIPTION:The New York Academy of Medicine\n 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street \nGeorge J. Makari\, Director of Cornell’s DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry\, Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College\, Adjunct Professor at Rockefeller University\, and Columbia University’s Psychoanalytic Center \nSoul 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. \nIn this groundbreaking work\, award-winning historian George Makari shows how writers\, philosophers\, physicians\, and anatomists worked to construct notions of the mind as not an ethereal thing\, but a natural one. From the ascent of Oliver Cromwell to the fall of Napoleon\, seminal thinkers like Hobbes\, Locke\, Diderot\, and Kant worked alongside often-forgotten brain specialists\, physiologists\, and alienists in the hopes of mapping the inner world. Conducted in a cauldron of political turmoil\, these frequently shocking\, always embattled efforts would give rise to psychiatry\, mind sciences such as phrenology\, and radically new visions of the self. Further\, they would be crucial to the establishment of secular ethics and political liberalism. Boldly original\, wide-ranging\, and brilliantly synthetic\, Soul Machine gives us a masterful\, new account of the making of the modern Western mind. \nGeorge J. Makari\, MD is Director of Cornell’s DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry\, Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College\, Adjunct Professor at Rockefeller University\, and Columbia University’s Psychoanalytic Center. Dr. Makari writes and lectures widely on the lessons to be learned from the history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis. He has published numerous articles and essays for professional journal and venues like The New York Times\, The Boston Globe\, and The Lancet. He is the author of Revolution in Mind\, The Creation of Psychoanalysis\, which was published in 2008 to wide acclaim. The book has received over 80 reviews\, has been or is being translated into numerous languages\, and has been the subject of seven scholarly symposiums. His most recent work\, Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind\, was released last year\, and was called in the Wall Street Journal “brilliant” “essential reading.” In addition to his research\, writing\, Dr. Makari maintains an active psychiatric practice and lives in New York City. \nThis event is sponsored by The New York Academy of Medicine.
URL:https://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/scisoc/cssevent/soul-machine-invention-modern-mind/
LOCATION:New York Academy of Medicine\, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street\, New York\, NY
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