Ernst Plattner e a antropologia médica e filosófica (1772)
Há algum tempo Roberto Palaia e John Zamitto já haviam escrito sobre Ernst Plattner, autor cuja bibliografia primária e secundária era, há alguns anos, difícil de encontrar por aqui:
ZAMMITO, J. H. Médecin‐philosoph : Persona for Radical Enlightenment. Intellectual History Review, v. 18, n. 3, p. 427–440, jan. 2008. doi: 10.1080/17496970802319334
PALAIA, R. Ernst Platner avversario della Filosofia critica. Nouvelles de la Republique des Lettres, ISSN 0392-2332, Nº 1, 1985 , pags. 7-26
O livro sobre antropologia de Plattner está disponível aqui:
PLATTNER, E. Anthropologie für Aerzte und Weltweise - Theil 1. Leipzig: Dyck, 1772. http://digitale.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/vd18/9187146
Tal como se comentava há alguns anos (a fonte se perdeu),
Ernst Platner’s Anthropologie für Aerzte und Weltweise (1772) became the focus of a new intellectual fashion during the period of the late Enlightenment, where anthropology denotes a concept explaining the interaction of body and soul through physical influence. This theory was advocated by the so called ’philosophical doctors‘, who combined metaphysics with medicine. Platner, professor of both disciplines in Leipzig, was the leading figure of the movement. The imoprtance of Platner’s work within the intellectual history was recently rediscovered by several historians of both medicine and literature. Its innovative image of the human being can be found not only in the science of psychology, but also in the ’anthropological novel’, in autobiographical characterisations as well as in the ’natural theater‘ of Lessing’s time.