Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology
Author | : Jos de Mul |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9789089646347 |
The first substantial English-language introduction to Plessner's philosophical anthropology.
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Author | : Jos de Mul |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9789089646347 |
The first substantial English-language introduction to Plessner's philosophical anthropology.
Author | : Helmuth Plessner |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2019-07-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 082328400X |
The groundbreaking classic of twentieth-century German philosophy now available in English—with an introduction by J.M. Bernstein. Helmuth Plessner’s Levels of Organic Life and the Human, draws on phenomenological, biological, and social scientific sources to offer a systematic account of nature, life, and human existence. The book considers non-living nature, plants, non-human animals, and human beings a sequence of increasingly complex modes of boundary dynamics—simply put, interactions between a thing’s insides and the surrounding world. Living things are classed and analyzed by their “positionality,” or orientation to and within an environment. According to Plessner’s radical view, the human form of life is excentric—that is, the relation between body and environment is something to which humans themselves are positioned and can take a position. This “excentric positionality” enables human beings to take a stand outside the boundaries of their own body, a possibility with significant implications for knowledge, culture, religion, and technology. A powerful and sophisticated account of embodiment, the Levels shows, with reference both to science and to philosophy, how life can be seen on its own terms to establish its own boundaries, and how, from the standpoint of life, the human establishes itself in relation to the nonhuman. As such, the book is not merely a historical monument but a source for invigorating a range of vital current conversations around the animal, posthumanism, the material turn, and the biology and sociology of cognition.
Author | : Jos de Mul |
Publisher | : Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2014-10-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9048522986 |
Helmut Plessner (18921985) was one of the founders of philosophical anthropology, and his book 'The Stages of the Organic and Man', first published in 1928, has inspired generations of philosophers, biologists, social scientists, and humanities scholars. This volume offers the first substantial introduction to Plessners philosophical anthropology in English, not only setting it in context with such familiar figures as Bergson, Cassirer, and Merleau-Ponty, but also showing Plessners relevance to contemporary discussions in a wide variety of fields in the humanities and sciences.
Author | : Helmuth Plessner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : POLITICAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | : 9780810138001 |
In Political Anthropology (originally published in 1931 as Macht und menschliche Natur), Helmuth Plessner considers whether politics--conceived as the struggle for power between groups, nations, and states--belongs to the essence of the human. Building on and complementing ideas from his Levels of the Organic and the Human (1928), Plessner proposes a genealogy of political life and outlines an anthropological foundation of the political. In critical dialogue with thinkers such as Carl Schmitt, Eric Voegelin, and Martin Heidegger, Plessner argues that the political relationships cultures entertain with one other, their struggle for acknowledgement and assertion, are expressions of certain possibilities of the openness and unfathomability of the human. Translated into English for the first time, and accompanied by an introduction and an epilogue that situate Plessner's thinking both within the context of Weimar-era German political and social thought and within current debates, this succinct book should be of great interest to philosophers, political theorists, and sociologists interested in questions of power and the foundations of the political.
Author | : Jesús Padilla Gálvez |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2013-05-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3110321823 |
If we read Ludwig Wittgenstein’s works and take his scientific formation in mathematical logic into account, it comes as a surprise that he ever developed a particular interest in anthropological questions. The following questions immediately arise: What role does anthropology play in Wittgenstein’s work? How do problems concerning mankind as a whole relate to his philosophy? How does his approach relate to philosophical anthropology? How does he view classical issues about Man’s affairs and actions? The aim of this book is to investigate the anthropological questions that Wittgenstein raised in his works. The answers to the questions raised in this introduction may be found on the intersection between forms of life and radical translation from another culture into ours. The book presents an extensive analysis of anthropological issues with emphasis on language and social elements.
Author | : Helmuth Plessner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Plessner (1892-1985), a onetime student of Husserl and contemporary of Heidegger, achieved recognition as a German social philosopher who helped establish philosophical anthropology as a discipline in the post-World War II decades. Anticipating the rise of German fascism in The Limits of Community (1924), he presents the appeal and dangers of rejecting modern society for the sake of a political ideal-based community. Translator Wallace (philosophy, Sonoma State U., California) provides a balanced introduction to Plessner's Max Weber-influenced ideas. The volume lacks an index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Helmuth Plessner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2020-03-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780810139718 |
In this classic of philosophical anthropology, Helmuth Plessner investigates the significance of laughing and crying, both in themselves and in relation to human nature.
Author | : Jose Angel Lombo |
Publisher | : Midwest Theological Forum |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2020-06-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1939231876 |
This text, written by professors of philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross and the University of Trieste, examines the nature of the human person, the human condition, and what it means to be truly human. Drawing from classical as well as modern philosophy and science, they present a comprehensive and fascinating reflection on human existence, especially characterized by the use of freedom.
Author | : Hans Joas |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2016-10-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 022637713X |
George Herbert Mead is widely considered one of the most influential American philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work remains vibrant and relevant to many areas of scholarly inquiry today. The Timeliness of George Herbert Mead brings together a range of scholars who provide detailed analyses of Mead’s importance to innovative fields of scholarship, including cognitive science, environmental studies, democratic epistemology, and social ethics, non-teleological historiography, and the history of the natural and social sciences. Edited by well-respected Mead scholars Hans Joas and Daniel R. Huebner, the volume as a whole makes a coherent statement that places Mead in dialogue with current research, pushing these domains of scholarship forward while also revitalizing the growing literature on an author who has an ongoing and major influence on sociology, psychology, and philosophy.
Author | : Tendayi Sithole |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2022-04-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1538166127 |
Mabogo P. More: Philosophical Anthropology is the first book to provide an extensive treatment of More’s Africana existential thought. This book locates him, as it is clear in his body of work, in the Azanian (Black and Indigenous) existential tradition. As a philosopher, he is engaged from the perspective of black radical thought. From this intervention, it is clear that his philosophical project originates and is expressed from the existential condition of being-black-in-an-antiblack-world. It is from the lived experience and the fact of being black that More is meditated upon and this book, which is the extension of his work, brings to the forth the ways of thinking, knowing, and doing that that illuminate his philosophical project.