انسان‌شناسی فلسفی پلسنر: دیدگاه‌ها و چشم‌اندازها

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 more familiar contemporaries such as Bergson, Cassirer and Merleau-Ponty, but also showing his relevance to contemporary discussion in a variety of scholarly fields Contents Foreword Artificial by Nature Part I Anthropology 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 Part II Culture 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 Part III Technology 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 Appendix. Plessner’s Collected Writings (Gesammelte Schriften) About the Authors Name Index Subject Index 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. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie Monografie over de wijsgerige antropologie van de Duitse filosoof en socioloog (1892-1985). NL-ZmNBD