Medical Empiricism and Philosophy of Human Nature in the 17th and 18th Century

Herausgeber: Crignon, Claire; Allocca, Nunzio; Zelle, Carsten

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Produktbeschreibung

Empiricism has many different faces. As the contributions to this volume demonstrate, in the 17th and 18th century demonstrate medical and philosophical empiricism is less about an "essence" and more a series of specifically modern "acts" or "gestures.".

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9789004268128
• ISBN-10: 900426812X
• Artikelnr.: 40427195

Autorenporträt

Claire Crignon, Dr. phil (2002, Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon) is teaching Modern English philosophy at Paris Sorbonne University and working in the field of history of philosophy and medicine and contemporary philosophy of medicine. Publications: with Marie Gaille: A qui appartient le corps humain? Belles Lettres 2004; Mélancolie et enthousiasme Burton et Shaftesbury, 2006; Je ne veux pas vieillir! Gallimard jeunesse, 2010. Carsten Zelle, Dr. phil. (1985), Habilitation (1994), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, is professor for German Studies, esp. literary theory and rhetorics. He has published monographs on agreeable horror (1987) and the dual esthetics of modernity (1995), articles about German literary history in the 18th, 19th and 20th century and edited resp. co-edited several books e.g. case history (2012) and the representation of illness (2013). He is managing editor of the journal Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert. Nunzio Allocca is teaching History of Scientific Thought at Sapienza - Università di Roma. His research interests have focused on the history and philosophy of biology and medicine in the modern age. Last main publications: Cartesio e il corpo della mente, Roma 2012; Lo spazio, l'occhio e la mente. Cartesio e la visibilità del mondo, Roma 2012.