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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part I|153 pages
Anthropology
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chapter 2|21 pages
The Nascence of Modern Man
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Two Approaches to the Problem – Biological Evolutionary Theory and Philosophical Anthropology
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chapter 3|20 pages
“True” and “False” Evolutionism
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Bergson's Critique of Spencer, Darwin & Co. and Its Relevance for Plessner (and Us)
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chapter 4|12 pages
Life, Concept and Subject
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Plessner's Vital Turn in the Light of Kant and Bergson
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chapter 6|19 pages
Plessner and the Mathematical-Physical Perspective
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The Prescientific Objectivity of the Human Body
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chapter 8|13 pages
Plessner's Theory of Eccentricity
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A Contribution to the Philosophy of Medicine
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part II|121 pages
Culture
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chapter 10|16 pages
Anthropology as a Foundation of Cultural Philosophy
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The Connection between Human Nature and Culture by Helmuth Plessner and Ernst Cassirer
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chapter 14|14 pages
Strangely Familiar
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The Debate on Multiculturalism and Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology
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part III|161 pages
Technology
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The Quest for the Sources of the Self, Seen from the Vantage Point of Plessner's Material a Priori
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chapter 20|17 pages
Switching “On,” Switching “Off”
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Does Neurosurgery in Parkinson's Disease Create Man-Machines?
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chapter 21|12 pages
On Humor and “Laughing” Rats
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The Importance of Plessner for Affective Neuroscience
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chapter 22|19 pages
A Moral Bubble
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The Influence of Online Personalization on Moral Repositioning
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chapter 23|18 pages
Eccentric Positionality as a Precondition for the Criminal Liability Of Artificial Life Forms
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chapter 26|19 pages
Philosophical Anthropology 2.0
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Reading Plessner in the Age of Converging Technologies
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