The concept of vital force -- the immanent energy that promotes the processes of life in the body and in nature -- has proved a source of endless fascination and controversy. Indeed, the question of what vitalizes the body has haunted humanity since antiquity, and became even more pressing during the Scientific Revolution and beyond. Examining the complexities and theories about vital force in Spanish modernity, Nicol�s Fern�ndez-Medina's Life Embodied offers a novel and provocative assessment of the question of bodily life in Spain. Starting with Juan de Cabriada's landmark Carta filos�fica, m�dico-chymica of 1687 and ending with Ram�n G�mez de la Serna's avant-gardism of the 1910s, Fern�ndez-Medina incorporates discussions of anatomy, philosophy, science, critical theory, history of medicine, and literary studies to argue that concepts of vital force served as powerful vehicles to interrogate the possibilities and limits of corporeality. Paying close attention to how the body's capabilities were conceived and strategically woven into critiques of modernity, Fern�ndez-Medina engages the work of Miguel Boix y Moliner, Mart�n Mart�nez, Diego de Torres Villarroel, Sebasti�n Guerrero Herreros, Ignacio Mar�a Ruiz de Luzuriaga, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Pedro Mata y Fontanet, �ngela Grassi, Juli�n Sanz del R�o, Miguel de Unamuno, and P�o Baroja, among others. Drawing on extensive research and analysis, Life Embodied breaks new ground as the first book to address the question of vital force in Spanish modernity.

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Nicol�s Fern�ndez-Medina is Associate Professor of Spanish and Philosophy and Co-Director of the Spanish and Italian Modernist Studies Forum at Pennsylvania State University.

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