Corps et âme

Overview & Synopsis

How does the soul interact with the body? Are these two entities united or separate? Where do they intersect, or who mediates between body and soul? As part of a long-term intellectual and conceptual history, the present volume brings together eleven contributions exploring how different authors, from Antiquity to the 18th century, have questioned and analyzed the ways in which body and soul interact and unite. The contributions are grouped according to period (Antiquity, Middle Ages, Modern Age) and address the following subjects: the physiological relationships between body and soul considered as a whole, the question of vegetative and vegetative faculties that cross the different living species, the nature of certain mediators such as pneuma or spiritus and species, and what pathological contexts reveal about these links between body and soul.