B. Mondin, "Philosophical Anthropology. Man: an Impossible Project?", Rome: Urbaniana University Press, 1991.
R.Descartes, "Treatise of man", trans. by Th. Steel, Prometheus Book 2003.
R. Descartes, "Passions of the Soul", trans. by Jonathan Bennett, October 2010-2015 (online source in four parts: students not attending the course need to find a good introduction to the work).
Further reading:
M. Scheler, "The Human Place in the Cosmos", Northwestern University Press 2009 (or any other edition);
A. Gehlen, "Man. His nature and Place in the World", Columbia University Press 1988 (or any other edition);
J. de Mul, "Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology. Perspectives and Projects", Amsterdam University Press 2014.