Roussel - Système physique et moral de la femme suivi d'un fragment de système physique et moral de l'homme... - 1820

Exciting edition of this emblematic work of medical-philosophical thought from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Heir to the Enlightenment and debates on physiology, Roussel develops a theory that links the body and the mind, seeking to explain the differences between the sexes through natural and moral laws.

The work aims to describe the woman's physical constitution, her biological functions, her psychological and emotional dispositions, linking them to a normative conception of her social and family role.

The section dedicated to man offers a counterpart, less developed, but which emphasizes the complementarity of the sexes in the natural and moral order.

The 'Essay on Sensibility' broadens the reflection by addressing the ability to feel as a fundamental principle of moral and social life, linking physiology to philosophy.

This book illustrates the transition between Enlightenment thinking and 19th-century conceptions, where physiology becomes a support to justify differentiated social roles, while seeking to establish a science of man and woman.

Roussel - Physical and moral system of women followed by a fragment on the physical and moral system of men and an essay on sensitivity - 1820 - Caille & Ravier
XLVIII-422 pp

Good condition of the binding, book in its original half-leather, marbled boards, signs of use and some loss of material on the spine and slight loss on the front board, absent headbands, cracked hinges, red edges, smooth decorated spine, gold lettering on a morocco piece.

Good interior condition, foxing, work enriched with two engravings outside the text, including a frontispiece.

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