Finite but unbounded : new approaches in philosophical anthropology / edited by Kevin M. Cahill, Martin Gustafsson and Thomas Schwarz Wentzer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cahill, Kevin (Kevin M.), editor.

Wentzer, Thomas Schwarz, editor.

Series:

Berlin studies in knowledge research ; Volume 12.

Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research ; Volume 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

World-leading anthropologists and philosophers pursue the perplexing question fundamental to both disciplines: What is it to think of ourselves as human? A common theme is the open-ended and context-dependent nature of our notion of the human, one upshot of which is that perplexities over that notion can only be dealt with in a piecemeal fashion, and in relation to concrete real-life circumstances. Philosophical anthropology, understood as the exploration of such perplexities, will thus be both recognizably philosophical in character and inextricably bound up with anthropological fieldwork. The volume is put together accordingly: Precisely by mixing ostensibly philosophical papers with papers that engage in close anthropological study of concrete issues, it is meant to reflect the vital tie between these two aspects of the overall philosophical-anthropological enterprise. The collection will be of great interest to philosophers and anthropologists alike, and essential reading for anyone interested in the interconnections between the two disciplines.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction / Gustafsson, Martin

To Human Is a Verb / Ingold, Tim

Approaching Philosophical Anthropology: Human, the Responsive Being / Wentzer, Thomas Schwarz

Situated Agency: A Postfoundational Alternative to Autonomy / Bevir, Mark

Notes on Life and Human Nature / Gustafsson, Martin

Ethnography, History and Philosophy of Experimental Psychology / Martin, Emily

A Degenerate Case of Action / Cahill, Kevin

The Alzheimer Enigma in an Ageing World / Lock, Margaret

Individuality, Identity and Supplementarity in Transcorporeal Embodiment / Shildrick, Margrit

The Loneliness of the Liberal Individual / Svendsen, Lars Fr. H.

The Dual Nature of the Modern Individual / Descombes, Vincent

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110523430

3110523434

OCLC:

989860455