Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology : Perspectives and Prospects /
The work of the German philosopher Helmuth Plessner (1892-1985) inspired generations of scholars and has been enjoying a recent renaissance. This volume offers the first substantial English-language introduction to Plessner's philosophical anthropology, contextualising it by comparison with the...
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Philosophical Anthropology
- 2. The Nascence of Modern Man
- 3. "True" and "False" Evolutionism
- 4. Life, Concept and Subject
- 5. Bodily Experience and Experiencing One's Body
- 6. Plessner and the Mathematical-Physical Perspective
- 7. The Body Exploited
- 8. Plessner's Theory of Eccentricity
- 9. The Duty of Personal Identity
- 10. Anthropology as a Foundation of Cultural Philosophy
- 11. Bi-Directional Boundaries
- 12. The Unbearable Freedom of Dwelling
- 13. Eccentric Positionality and Urban Space
- 14. Strangely Familiar
- 15. De-Masking as a Characteristic of Social Work?
- 16. Helmuth Plessner as a Social Theorist
- 17. Habermas's New Turn towards Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology
- 18. The Quest for the Sources of the Self, Seen from the Vantage Point of Plessner's Material a Priori
- 19. The Brain in the Vat as the Epistemic Object of Neurobiology
- 20. Switching "On," Switching "Off"
- 21. On Humor and "Laughing" Rats
- 22. A Moral Bubble
- 23. Eccentric Positionality as a Precondition for the Criminal Liability Of Artificial Life Forms
- 24. Not Terminated
- 25. Plessner and Technology
- 26. Philosophical Anthropology 2.0
- About the Authors
- Name Index
- Subject Index.