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Title Plessner's philosophical anthropology : perspectives and prospects / edited by Jos de Mul.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (498 pages) : illustrations
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Note A selection of the papers presented at the IVth International Plessner Conference, held at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2009.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Summary Helmuth Plessner (1892-1985) 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 Plessner's philosophical anthropology in English, not only setting it in context with such familiar figures as Bergson, Cassirer, and Merleau-Ponty, but also showing Plessner's relevance to contemporary discussions in a wide variety of fields in the humanities and sciences.
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.
Note E-publication (viewed October 4, 2017).
Language English.
Subject Plessner, Helmuth, 1892-1985 -- Stufen des Organischen und der Mensch -- Congresses.
Plessner, Helmuth, 1892-1985 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJg4kRDXcBVFtbHvkYvfv3
Philosophical anthropology -- Congresses.
Biology -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
Philosophical anthropology -- Congresses.
Biology -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
Anthropologie philosophique -- Congrès.
Biologie -- Philosophie -- Congrès.
Anthropologie philosophique -- Congrès.
Biologie -- Philosophie -- Congrès.
History of Western philosophy.
Humanities.
Philosophy.
Western philosophy, from c 1900.
Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern.
PHILOSOPHY / Criticism
Biology -- Philosophy
Philosophical anthropology
Indexed Term Culture
Eccentricity
Philosophical anthropology
Plessner
Technology
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings
Added Author Mul, Jos de, 1956- editor.
Other Form: Print version: 9789089646347 9089646345
ISBN 9789048522989 (PDF)
9048522986
9789089646347 (hardback)
9089646345 (print)
Standard No. 10.26530/OAPEN_626454 doi

 
    
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