La quête de l´équilibre: âme, vertus, humeurs

Piece written for and published in the French journal Corps (March 2010).

Read it here.

 

Roman spa

Roman spa (Naples)

 

Passions and Tempers

Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours

A 2500-year journey that explores the origins of humours in ancient Greece through the present day. Published by Ecco (HarperCollins). Read more.

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Articles and Essays

The Internet and Slowness

written for the 2010 Edge World Question Center

 

Lectures and Academic

La quête de l´équilibre: âme, vertus, humeurs

Piece published in the French journal Corps (March 2010)

 

"Just Life in a Nutshell": Humours as Common Sense

Written for a symposium on "Folk Epistemologies" at Columbia University, in 2007. Published in The Philosophical Forum.

 

Opaque Humors, Enlightened Emotions, and the Transparent mind

Published in the journal Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics (Harvard University Press), issue 51, spring 2007.

 

Humoural Passions and Seasoned Cares

Lecture given in 2004 at a conference at Barnard, "Medicine Across Cultures: Medicine and the Mind, 600-1600".

 

Reason and Emotion in the Early Enlightenment

Presented in 2003, first at the Italian Academy, Columbia University, then as a University Professors Occasional Lecture at Boston University.

 

Chronological Archive