Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology: Perspectives and Prospects

book: Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2014

Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology

Perspectives and Prospects

Edited by: Jos Mul

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048522989

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About this book

The first substantial English-language introduction to Plessner's philosophical anthropology.

Author / Editor information

Mul Jos :

Jos de Mul is full professor of Philosophy of Man and Culture at the Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has also taught at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and Fudan University (Shanghai). His publications include: The Tragedy of Finitude. Dilthey's Hermeneutics of Life (Yale UP 2004) and Destiny Domesticated. The Rebirth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Technology (SUNY, March 2014).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Foreword Jos de Mul Open Access Download PDF	9
Artificial by Nature An Introduction to Plessner’s Philosophical Anthropology Jos de Mul Open Access Download PDF	11
Part I Anthropology
1 Philosophical Anthropology A Third Way between Darwinism and Foucaultism Joachim Fischer Open Access Download PDF	41
2 The Nascence of Modern Man Two Approaches to the Problem – Biological Evolutionary Theory and Philosophical Anthropology Hans-Peter Krüger Open Access Download PDF	57
3 “True” and “False” Evolutionism Bergson’s Critique of Spencer, Darwin & Co. and Its Relevance for Plessner (and Us) Heike Delitz Open Access Download PDF	79
4 Life, Concept and Subject Plessner’s Vital Turn in the Light of Kant and Bergson Thomas Ebke Open Access Download PDF	99
5 Bodily Experience and Experiencing One’s Body Maarten Coolen Open Access Download PDF	111
6 Plessner and the Mathematical- Physical Perspective The Prescientific Objectivity of the Human Body Jasper van Buuren Open Access Download PDF	129
7 The Body Exploited Torture and the Destruction of Selfhood Janna van Grunsven Open Access Download PDF	149
8 Plessner’s Theory of Eccentricity A Contribution to the Philosophy of Medicine Oreste Tolone Open Access Download PDF	163
9 The Duty of Personal Identity Authenticity and Irony Martino Enrico Boccignone Open Access Download PDF	177
Part II Culture
10 Anthropology as a Foundation of Cultural Philosophy The Connection between Human Nature and Culture by Helmuth Plessner and Ernst Cassirer Henrike Lerch Open Access Download PDF	195
11 Bi-Directional Boundaries Eccentric Life and Its Environments Robert Mugerauer Open Access Download PDF	211
12 The Unbearable Freedom of Dwelling Jetske Oosten Open Access Download PDF	229
13 Eccentric Positionality and Urban Space Huib Ernste Open Access Download PDF	243
14 Strangely Familiar The Debate on Multiculturalism and Plessner’s Philosophical Anthropology Kirsten Pols Open Access Download PDF	261
15 De-Masking as a Characteristic of Social Work? Veronika Magyar-Haas Open Access Download PDF	275
16 Helmuth Plessner as a Social Theorist Role Playing in Legal Discourse Bas Hengstmengel Open Access Download PDF	289
17 Habermas’s New Turn towards Plessner’s Philosophical Anthropology Matthias Schloβberger Open Access Download PDF	301
Part III Technology
18 The Quest for the Sources of the Self, Seen from the Vantage Point of Plessner’s Material a Priori Petran Kockelkoren Open Access Download PDF	317
19 The Brain in the Vat as the Epistemic Object of Neurobiology Gesa Lindemann Open Access Download PDF	335
20 Switching “On,” Switching “Off” Does Neurosurgery in Parkinson’s Disease Create Man-Machines? Johannes Hätscher Open Access Download PDF	357
21 On Humor and “Laughing” Rats The Importance of Plessner for Affective Neuroscience Heleen J. Pott Open Access Download PDF	375
22 A Moral Bubble The Influence of Online Personalization on Moral Repositioning Esther Keymolen Open Access Download PDF	387
23 Eccentric Positionality as a Precondition for the Criminal Liability Of Artificial Life Forms Mireille Hildebrandt Open Access Download PDF	407
24 Not Terminated Cyborgized Men Still Remain Human Beings Dierk Spreen Open Access Download PDF	425
25 Plessner and Technology Philosophical Anthropology Meets the Posthuman Peter-Paul Verbeek Open Access Download PDF	443
26 Philosophical Anthropology 2.0 Reading Plessner in the Age of Converging Technologies Jos de Mul Open Access Download PDF	457
Appendix. Plessner’s Collected Writings (Gesammelte Schriften) Open Access Download PDF	477
About the Authors Open Access Download PDF	481
Name Index Open Access Download PDF	489
Subject Index Open Access Download PDF	495

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 482
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 4
Keywords: Plessner; philosophical anthropology; culture; technology; eccentricity

eBook

Published: October 17, 2014
ISBN: 9789048522989