L’anthropologie philosophique de Kurt Goldstein

Abstract

This article aims to describe the main features of Kurt Goldstein’s philosophical anthropology, also showing how the project of such an anthropology found its form in the rereading of clinical material. We underline the originality of an anthropology rooted in the description of pathology and care, following a critical method which refuses other possible ways of drawing the figure of man from clinical experience. We thus attempt to show how a renewed reading of Goldstein is possible that is less dependent on the Canguilhemian and Merleau-Pontian readings which were fundamental for French-speaking readers.