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From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Somewhat rubbed jacket, allover very good and clean. / Etwas beriebener Umschlag, insgesamt sehr gut und sauber. - CONTENTS: Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note on Transliterations and Translations -- Introduction -- Symptoms and Subjects -- Seeing through Symptoms -- The Physical Imagination -- Rethinking Soma and Psukhe -- Telling Stories -- Chapter One: Before the Physical Body -- Daemonic Violence -- The Seen and the Felt -- The Boundaries of the Felt -- Fear and the Visual Field of the Self -- How Gods Act -- The Seen Body and Social Agency -- Interpreting Disease and Practices of Healing -- Chapter Two: The Inquiry into Nature and the Physical Imagination -- Depersonalizing Causes -- Natural Justice -- Melissus and the Denial of Body -- A Community of Objects -- Bodies, Persons, Knowledge -- Chapter Three: Incorporating the Daemonic -- Symptoms at the Threshold of Seen and Unseen -- The Interval -- Explaining Disease -- The Dynamics of the Cavity -- The Automatic Body -- Chapter Four: Signs of Life and Techniques of Taking Care -- The Prognostic Symptom: Forces of Life and Death -- Fragile Life -- On Ancient Medicine and the Discovery of Human Nature -- Embodiment, Knowledge, and Technical Agency -- Taking Care -- Shoring Up the Self -- Chapter Five: Beyond the Soma: Therapies of the Psukhe -- Bodily Needs -- Psychic Desires -- Gorgias�s Encomium to Helen and Human Diseases -- Psychic Disorder in Democritus -- Chapter Six: Forces of Nature, Acts of Gods: Euripides� Symptoms -- The Polysemy of the Symptom -- Tragedy and the Interval -- Euripides� Causes: The Madness of Heracles -- Euripides� Causes: The Madness of Orestes -- Realizing Disease in the Hippolytus -- Daemonic Phusis -- The Semantics of Suffering -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index. ISBN 9780691138992