Artifacts for Diderot's Elements of Physiology: An Expanded, Hybrid Translation and Commentary (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798986035802)

Artifacts for Diderot's Elements of Physiology is a translation of Denis Diderot's rare 18th Century work, ﾉl駑ents de physiologie, situating it in light of New Materialism and other current debates in continental philosophy. It takes one of many possible theoretical tours through this oeuvre of Diderot, as well as incorporates other supplementary artifacts, including translations of sections of the Latin of Albrecht von Haller on which Diderot's text is partially based. While the focus of the critical French editions has been on an inescapable determinism of Diderot (Mayer), a lay anthropology rooted in Diderot's atheist conclusion to ﾉl駑ents (Quintili), and an extensive presentation of Diderot's sources (Terada), Artifacts emphasizes the importance of Part I of the work. In Beings, Diderot most convincingly stakes out a radical transformist philosophical position appropriate to many issues currently at the forefront of philosophical discourse, demonstrating once more the inexhaustible ways Diderot's work can be fruitfully applied after the age of Lumi鑽es.

Author: Gregory Bringman
ISBN-13: 9798986035802
Publisher: Blurb
Language: English
Published: 04/26/2024
Pages: 474
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.95d