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Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind
George Makari
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Raymond Tallis,
The Wall Street Journal
George Makari’s brilliant, compendious
Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind
is essential reading.
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Owen Flanagan,
Los Angeles Review of Books
Soul Machine
is a finely written story about the political, medical, theological, philosophical, scientific, and technological cauldron in which ideas about bodies, minds, and souls swirled from roughly 1660 to 1815.
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Michael S. Roth,
The Daily Beast
Human beings 'navigate between competing notions of their own being,' and Soul Machine is a very fine guide to that modern and ongoing effort.
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