Raffaele Carbone
Federico II University Press, Napoli.
This book focuses on the new anthropology elaborated by the physicians-philosophers of Montpellier in the second half of the 18th
century, in particular, Paul-Joseph Barthez (1734-1806). In the wake of
scepticism and empiricism, Barthez plans a science of man which rests
upon physiological foundations and assimilates the respective resources
of medicine and philosophical reflection. This essay first reconstructs
the historical-cultural context in which the author’s writings came into
being; second, it examines the texts in which its science of man takes
shape, by highlighting the methodology, conceptual tools and theoretical
implications.
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