Life configurations / edited by Gert Melville and Carlos Ruta ; editorial manager, Laura S. Carugati.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Melville, Gert, editor.

Ruta, Carlos, editor.

Carugati, Laura S., editor.

Series:

Challenges of life ; Volume 1.

Challenges of Life ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adjustment (Psychology).

Human behavior.

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Life Configurations focuses on the analysis and reflection on the various forms in which human beings imagine, design, conjecture, and plan their ?"becoming", that is to say their lives. Case studies written by an interdisciplinary circle of well-known academics explore how the capacity of designing life, the concept of free will, and the methods to calculate the future have been changed and adopted in different societies and in different ages.

Contents:

Front matter

Preface to the series "Challenges of Life" / Melville, Gert

Life Configurations / Ruta, Carlos Rafael

Contents

Philosophical Foundations

Contributions for considering the possibility of all life configurations / Ruta, Carlos Rafael

"Philosophical Anthropology" as an Interpretation of Human Life Forms / Rehberg, Karl-Siegbert

Life and Language / Castro, Edgardo

Historical Perspectives

Carpe diem: Time and Life Configuration in the Hellenistic Roman World / Vogt-Spira, Gregor

Life Configurations in the Middle Ages between Divine Acting and Human Self-Determination / Melville, Gert

Foreseeing the Future Under a Communist Regime / Ingerflom, Claudio

Cultural Identities

Explaining the Vicissitudes of Human Life: The Indian View / Tripathi, Gaya Charan

Life Configurations: Perceived Patternings in Pre-modern China / Wixted, John Timothy

The Muslim Conduct of Life: Paths of Continuity / Nagel, Tilman

Sorcery comes from nearby Problems of the human condition according to some Amazonian indigenous peoples / Vanzolini, Marina

Returning to the Land, Evoking the Past, and Sowing the Future Guaraní and Tapiete Indians and the Formation of New Rural Communities in Northwestern Argentina / Hirsch, Silvia María

Life as Quotidian Acts of Justice in Northern Mozambique / Obarrio, Juan

Politics - Economics - Ethics

Configurations of (Political) Life / Chignola, Sandro

The Politics of Survival / Abélès, Marc

What's Alive for Economics? / Cuillerai, Marie

Can Ethics Shape Modern Societies? / Wilhelm, Friedrich

Art and Literature

Why Do We Need Masterpieces? / Ibarlucía, Ricardo

Elpenor, the Emmaus Pilgrim and the Missing One The Painting and the Historical Problem of Life Configuration / Burucúa, José Emilio / Kwiatkowski, Nicolás

The Rise and Fall of Objects and Their Relationship with Man / Trimarchi, Mario

Musil's Reconfiguring of Austria's (reluctant) Entry into Modernity / Rosenfield, Kathrin H.

About the Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 11, 2015).

ISBN:

9783110395709

3110395703

9783110338737

3110338734

OCLC:

890071000