La machine plus que machine ou l'automate transfiguré. L'anthropologie de Julien Offray de La Mettrie et la réinvention du mécanisme médical (2010)
Presti, Roberto Lo (Author)
Gesnerus
Volume: 67
Pages: 163--187
Publication date: 2010
Language: French
In this paper I take into account an image, or concept, that of `machine', and more precisely one of its most problematic and controversial derivations, that of `man-machine', which are at the basis of all the representations, and in particular medical representations, of the human action as a result of an `automatism' as well as of man as an `automaton'. More in detail, I try to analyse the theoretical framework, the rhetorical structure and the medical derivation of Julien Offray de la Mettrie's concept of the `man-machine', and to cast light on a double phenomenon of semantic distortion and of individuation of new shades of meaning that the semantic field of the `mechanical' underwent in La Mettrie's thought.
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