The subject is a historical investigation of German neurology from the first decades of the nineteen century, represented by Burdach and Carus, and its relation to the romantic presuppositions of the biological approach. Carus accentuates the necessity of an anatomical research of the brain and considers a total organism, attesting the influence of Schelling's philosophy. Burdach, for his part, investigates the cerebral structure in conexion with sensibility and with the evolutionary process.
Science; romanticism; neurology; psychology