Enjeu cartésien et philosophie du corps. Etudes d'anthropologie moderne.

[Autom. eng. transl.] The aim of these studies is above all to trace the famous Cartesian cleavage between thought and body, based on an epistemological analysis of the disqualification - operated by Descartes - of the cognitive role of the imagination. The author deepens, from a phenomenological point of view, three symptomatic solutions of the modern era, certainly less known, but absolutely fundamental to rethink the anthropological and political status of the subject: the temptation to reduce the body to an idea as we see in the Hegelian interpretation of Malebranche; the anti-Cartesian reaction of the physician-philosopher Cabanis, with his ambition to explain thought in terms of the emergence of corporeal matter; and finally, the attempt, which the author puts to the test from Rosmini, to speak of the body without renouncing its disturbing otherness, but also avoiding the dualist impasse.