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DESCRIPTION:"The Roots of Cerebral Subjectivity: Humanizing the Brain in Ea
 rly Christianity"\n\nJessica Wright\nPostdoctoral Fellow in Classics and S
 ociety of Fellows at USC\n\nDoheny Memorial Library (DML) Room 233\, Intel
 lectual Commons\n\nThis paper offers a new genealogy of “cerebral subjec
 t ideology” – that is\, the identification of the human being\, qua ra
 tional subject\, with the brain. While historians have largely agreed that
  this phenomenon developed out of Enlightenment philosophy in seventeenth-
 century Europe\, Jessica Wright argues that its origins can be found in se
 rmons across the late Roman Empire. In particular\, Dr. Wright explores ho
 w early Christian preachers adapted arguments drawn from medicine and phil
 osophy to support their doctrines of human exceptionalism and divine provi
 dence. The conceptual development of the brain in early Christian theology
 \, Dr. Wright suggests\, laid the foundations of differentiation on cognit
 ive\, psychic\, and bodily grounds in later European philosophical and sci
 entific movements.\n\nComplete the RSVP form for lunch and to receive the 
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LOCATION:Doheny Memorial Library (DML)\, 233
SUMMARY:Conversations Across the Humanities with Jessica Wright
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