Abstract

The author reconstructs the genesis of Nohl’s anthropology starting from the linguistic turn that in 1928 the German philosopher and educator gives to the concept of anthropology meant as Menschenkunde. From a purely theoretical point of view this implies the impossibility of reducing the anthropology meant as a Grundwissenschaften, to a pure and simple analytical science. The identification of the four major anthropological categories proposed by Nohl thus emerges as an attempt to bring anthropology as close as possible to the human life, which is its object par excellence