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Darrera modificació: 2023-11-25
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Vermeir, Koen, "Education and the cultivation of the early modern self: cultura animi as self-care in Juan Luis Vives", Early Science and Medicine, 28/1 [=Individuality, self-care, and self-preservation in late medieval and early modern science, eds. Steven Vanden Broecke - Jonathan Regier] (2023), 63-94.
- Resum
- Self-care has a long and complex history, ranging from the ancient Vedic care of the self to twentieth-century Black feminist resistance and twenty-first century wellness consumerism, with its latest transformations currently underway in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. These historical practices of self-care have been continually renewed and repurposed, providing guidance for new generations (with Modern Stoicism as one prominent recent manifestation). As the concept of self-care today covers such a wide range of meanings and practices, writing its history implies making choices and requires rigorous historicization. In this article, I analyze early uses of the expression “the culture of the soul” (cultura animi) and the practices to which it refers in terms of self-care. The focus on this key concept provides us with a circumscribed corpus, a clear anchor point for an in-depth inquiry, and a
- Matèries
- Humanisme
Educació
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- https://brill.com/view/journals/esm/28/1/article-p6 ...
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