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Plessner's philosophical anthropology

edited byJos De Mul

Abstract

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.

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Contents

pp.5-8

Artificial by nature

An introduction to Plessner's philosophical anthropology

Jos De Mul

pp.11-40

Anthropology

pp.41-194

Philosophical anthropology

A third way between Darwinism and Foucaultism

Joachim Fischer

pp.41-56

The nascence of modern man

Two approaches to the problem - biological evolutionary theory and philosophical anthropology

Hans-Peter Krüger

pp.57-78

"True" and "false" evolutionism

Bergson's critique of spencer, Darwin & co and its relevance for Plessner (and us)

Heike Delitz

pp.79-98

Life, concept and subject

Plessner's vital turn in the light of Kant and Bergson

Thomas Ebke

pp.99-110

Plessner and the mathematical-physical perspective

The prescientific objectivity of the human body

Jasper Van Buuren

pp.129-148

The body exploited

Torture and the destruction of selfhood

Janna Van Grunsven

pp.149-162

Plessner's theory of eccentricity

A contribution to the philosophy of medicine

Oreste Tolone

pp.162-176

The duty of personal identity

Authenticity and irony

Mortino Enrico Boccignone

pp.177-194

Culture

pp.195-316

Anthropology as a foundation of cultural philosophy

The connection between human nature and culture by Helmuth Plessner and Ernst Cassirer

Henrike Lerch

pp.195-210

Bi-directional boundaries

Eccentric life and its environmens

Robert Mugerauer

pp.211-228

Strangely familiar

The debate on multiculturalism and Plessner's philosophical anthropology

Kirsten Pols

pp.261-274

Helmuth Plessner as a social theorist

Role playing in legal discourse

Bas Hengstmengel

pp.289-300

Technology

pp.317-476

Switching "on", switching "off"

Does neurosurgery in Parkinson's disease create man-machines?

Johannes Hätscher

pp.357-374

On humor and "laughing" rats

The importance of Plessner for affective neuroscience

Helen Pott

pp.375-406

A moral bubble

The influence of online personalization on moral repositioning

Esther Keymolen

pp.387-406

Not terminated

Cyborgized men still remain human beings

Dierk Spreen

pp.425-442

Plessner and technology

Philosophical anthropology meets the posthuman

Peter-Paul Verbeek(DesignLab, Universiteit Leiden)

pp.443-456

Philosophical anthropology 2.0

Reading Plessner in the age of converging techonologies

Jos De Mul

pp.457-476

About the authors

pp.481-488

Name index

pp.489-498

Publication details

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Place: Amsterdam

Year: 2014

Pages: 498

DOI: search?identifier=626454

ISBN (hardback): 9789089646347

ISBN (digital): 9789048522989

Full citation:

De Mul Jos (2014) Plessner's philosophical anthropology. Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press.