Artifacts for Diderot's Elements of Physiology: An Expanded, Hybrid Translation and Commentary

By Gregory Bringman

Artifacts for Diderot's Elements of Physiology is a translation of Denis Diderot's rare 18th Century work, ?l?ments de physiologie, situating it in light of New Materialism and other current debates in continental philosophy. It takes one of many possible theoretical tours through this oeuvre of Diderot, as well as incorporates other supplementary artifacts, including translations of sections of the Latin of Albrecht von Haller on which Diderot's text is partially based. While the focus of the critical French editions has been on an inescapable determinism of Diderot (Mayer), a lay anthropology rooted in Diderot's atheist conclusion to ?l?ments (Quintili), and an extensive presentation of Diderot's sources (Terada), Artifacts emphasizes the importance of Part I of the work. In Beings, Diderot most convincingly stakes out a radical transformist philosophical position appropriate to many issues currently at the forefront of philosophical discourse, demonstrating once more the inexhaustible ways Diderot's work can be fruitfully applied after the age of Lumi?res.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0B11NBXH3
• ISBN13: 9798986035802
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Blurb
• Length: 474 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"