[PDF.89ni] The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France

The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France

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 | #2673077 in Books |  2005-12-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.74 x1.07 x6.46l,1.22 | File type: PDF | 416 pages

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||9 of 16 people found the following review helpful.| This writer is just too much|By Norman Miller|This writer is as even handed and fair as she is brilliant. I read Doubt: A History and was left feeling the same way. In addition to being a history of French anthropology this book is an example of the very finest writing.|24 of 36 people found the following review helpful.| Very Disappointing|| |[Hecht] brings wit and enthusiasm to her densely packed tale of the freethinking anthropologists, who first knew each other as distraught republicans during the Second Empire. (Nina C. Ayoub Chronicle of Higher Education)

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On October 19, 1876 a group of leading French citizens, both men and women included, joined together to form an unusual group, The Society of Mutual Autopsy, with the aim of proving that souls do not exist. The idea was that, after death, they would dissect one another and (hopefully) show a direct relationship between brain shapes and sizes and the character, abilities and intelligence of individuals. This strange scientific pact, and indeed what we have come to think o...

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