tabula rasa. Beobachtung von Sprache und Geist am Menschen in der der Société des observateurs de l’homme, 1789–1830

In 1799, the Société des observateurs de l’homme – the Society of the Observers of Man – was set up with the aim of establishing a „comparative anthropology“. Laurens Schlicht investigates just how humans became research objects and which short-term transformations they were subjected to both in this empirical research role and as political actors.