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

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Mul, Jos de, 1956- Editor.

Contributor:

Mul, Jos de, 1956- editor.

Conference Name:

Internationale Helmuth Plessner Kongress (4th : 2009 : Rotterdam, Netherlands)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plessner, Helmuth, 1892-1985--Stufen des Organischen und der Mensch--Congresses.

Plessner, Helmuth.

Philosophical anthropology--Congresses.

Philosophical anthropology.

Biology--Philosophy--Congresses.

Biology.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (498 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2014].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

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.

Notes:

A selection of the papers presented at the IVth International Plessner Conference, held at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2009.

Includes bibliographical references.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access

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ISBN:

1-04-078086-5

1-003-70152-3

1-04-079719-9

90-485-2298-6

9781003701521

OCLC:

1013723480