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Die Originalität von Helmuth Plessners Philosophie besteht darin, dass sie die praktisch nötigen Ermöglichungsstrukturen und Grenzen anthropologischer Vergleiche in der personalen Lebensführung aufdeckt. Sie leistet diese Rekonstruktion, indem sie phänomenologische, hermeneutische und dialektische Methoden kombiniert, um qualitative Grenzerfahrungen, deren Deutung und Interpretation philosophisch untersuchen zu können. Theoretisch setzt diese Untersuchung auf die lebenspraktische These, dass sich das Wesen des Menschen nicht feststellen lässt, sondern auch künftig der personalen Lebensführung unergründlich bleibt. Die naturphilosophische Fundierung bioanthropologischer Vergleiche legt die exzentrische Positionalität als den Ermöglichungs- und Begrenzungsgrund frei. Die sozial- und kultur-philosopische Fundierung sozial- und kultur-anthropologischer Vergleiche rekonstruiert das privat-öffentliche Doppelgängertum von Personen in ihrer Mitwelt als diesen Grund. Die geschichtsphilosophische Fundierung politisch-anthropologischer Vergleiche legt zumindest immanent transzendente Utopien als denjenigen Ermöglichungs- und Begrenzungsgrund frei, der sich dem Umgang mit einem globalen Hochkapitalismus gewachsen zeigen kann. This volume examines the specifics of Plessner's philosophy in comparison with the conceptions of Dewey, Freud, Habermas, Heidegger, Jaspers, Kant, Nietzsche, v. Uexküll and today's brain, cognition and behavioral research. It shows how philosophical anthropology overcomes the speciesism, ethnocentrism, anthropocentrism of modernity in favour of a common and open future of personal life forms.

History of Western philosophy --- Western philosophy, from c 1900 --- -History of Western philosophy --- -Philosophical anthropology. --- anthropocentrism. --- history of philosophy. --- transhumanism. --- Philosophical anthropology. --- Plessner, Helmuth, --- -Plessner, Helmuth,

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Dominick LaCapra's History and Its Limits articulates the relations among intellectual history, cultural history, and critical theory, examining the recent rise of "Practice Theory" and probing the limitations of prevalent forms of humanism. LaCapra focuses on the problem of understanding extreme cases, specifically events and experiences involving violence and victimization. He asks how historians treat and are simultaneously implicated in the traumatic processes they attempt to represent. In addressing these questions, he also investigates violence's impact on various types of writing and establishes a distinctive role for critical theory in the face of an insufficiently discriminating aesthetic of the sublime (often unreflectively amalgamated with the uncanny).In History and Its Limits, LaCapra inquires into the related phenomenon of a turn to the "postsecular," even the messianic or the miraculous, in recent theoretical discussions of extreme events by such prominent figures as Giorgio Agamben, Eric L. Santner, and Slavoj Zizek. In a related vein, he discusses Martin Heidegger's evocative, if not enchanting, understanding of "The Origin of the Work of Art." LaCapra subjects to critical scrutiny the sometimes internally divided way in which violence has been valorized in sacrificial, regenerative, or redemptive terms by a series of important modern intellectuals on both the far right and the far left, including Georges Sorel, the early Walter Benjamin, Georges Bataille, Frantz Fanon, and Ernst Jünger.Violence and victimization are prominent in the relation between the human and the animal. LaCapra questions prevalent anthropocentrism (evident even in theorists of the "posthuman") and the long-standing quest for a decisive criterion separating or dividing the human from the animal. LaCapra regards this attempt to fix the difference as misguided and potentially dangerous because it renders insufficiently problematic the manner in which humans treat other animals and interact with the environment.In raising the issue of desirable transformations in modernity, History and Its Limits examines the legitimacy of normative limits necessary for life in common and explores the disconcerting role of transgressive initiatives beyond limits (including limits blocking the recognition that humans are themselves animals).

Violence --- Animals (Philosophy) --- Human beings --- Intellectual life --- Historiography. --- Philosophy --- Animal nature of human beings --- Philosophical anthropology --- Intellectual history --- Historical criticism --- History --- Authorship --- Philosophy. --- Animal nature. --- History. --- Criticism --- Historiography --- violence and victimization, anthropocentrism, Practice Theory, violences effect on history.

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Die medienwissenschaftliche Debatte um das Verhältnis und die Verschränkung von Mensch und Medium bekommt eine neue theoriehistorische Analytik: Mit dem »audiovisuellen Individuum« - dem Audioviduum - rückt Julia Eckel eine spezifische Schnittstelle dieser materiellen wie diskursiven Kopplung in den Fokus. Dazu untersucht sie die Relevanz des Menschenmotivs in audiovisuellen Medien für die Herausbildung medientheoretischen Denkens und befragt frühe Schriften zu Stummfilm, Radio und Tonfilm auf ihre inhärenten Anthropozentrismen. Das Audioviduum bezeichnet hierbei die konkrete Verschmelzung von Medium und Mensch im Modus anthropomorpher und anthropophoner Audiovisualität und repräsentiert dessen Relevanz für die Medientheorien des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts - und darüber hinaus.

Audiovisuelle Medien; Frühe Filmtheorie; Frühe Radiotheorie; Medienanthropologie; Anthropozentrismus; Anthropomorphismus; Kino; Stummfilm; Rundfunk; Tonfilm; Mensch; Anthropophonismus; Figurentheorie; Emergenz; Medien; Film; Medientheorie; Mediengeschichte; Kulturtheorie; Medienwissenschaft; Anthropocentrism; Anthropomorphism; Cinema; Silent Film; Broadcasting; Human; Media; Media Theory; Media History; Cultural Theory; Media Studies --- Anthropomorphism. --- Broadcasting. --- Cinema. --- Cultural Theory. --- Film. --- Human. --- Media History. --- Media Studies. --- Media Theory. --- Media. --- Silent Film.

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This book discusses the geological time that will follow the human-dominated epoch and ways to move there. In addition to an editorial, a total of five articles are published in this volume. The articles engage with a variety of social science disciplines—ranging from economics and sociology to philosophy and political science—and connect to natural science’s insights into the Anthropocene. The volume calls for going beyond anthropocentrism in sustainability theory and practice in order to exit the Anthropocene with applications and insights in the contexts of politics, energy, tourism, food and management. We hope that you will find this book interesting and helpful in contributing to sustainable change.

sustainable diets --- Anthropocene --- indigenous ontologies --- temporality --- sustainable futures --- energy --- transportation --- mobility --- energy intensity --- cities --- anthropocentrism --- deep ecology --- degrowth --- domination --- ecological realism --- politics --- post-Anthropocene --- power --- supremacy --- transformation --- embodiment --- organising --- eco-phenomenology --- proximity tourism --- more-than-human --- new materialism --- time --- nature --- culture --- sustainability

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Animal Narratology interrogates what it means to narrate, to speak—speak for, on behalf of—and to voice, or represent life beyond the human, which is in itself as different as insects, bears, and dogs are from each other, and yet more, as individual as a single mouse, horse, or puma. The varied contributions to this interdisciplinary Special Issue highlight assumptions about the human perception of, attitude toward, and responsibility for the animals that are read and written about, thus demonstrating that just as “the animal” does not exist, neither does “the human”. In their zoopoetic focus, the analyses are aware that animal narratology ultimately always contains an approximation of an animal perspective in human terms and terminology, yet they make clear that what matters is how the animal is approximated and that there is an effort to approach and encounter the non-human in the first place. Many of the analyses come to the conclusion that literary animals give readers the opportunity to expand their own points of view both on themselves and others by adopting another’s perspective to the degree that such an endeavor is possible. Ultimately, the contributions call for a recognition of the many spaces, moments, and modes in which human lives are entangled with those of animals—one of which is located within the creative bounds of storytelling.

animal narrators --- anthropocentrism --- cultural ontologies --- discourse analysis --- fiction–nonfiction distinction --- framing and footing --- life writing --- narratology --- politeness --- self-narratives --- animal studies --- human-animal studies --- speaking animals --- Tolstoy --- Bulgakov --- trauma theory --- Russian literature --- allegory --- humanism --- literary theory --- film studies --- George Orwell --- Animal Farm --- Chicken Run --- Uwe Timm --- ‘Morenga’ --- African history --- colonialism --- postcolonial German literature --- animal narratology --- multi-perspective narration --- animal agency --- The Plague Dogs --- Richard Adams --- unreliability --- talking animal stories --- non-human focalizer --- Pincher Martin --- non-human narrators --- intradiegetic narration --- Gerard Genette --- anthropomorphism --- Eric Linklater --- The Wind on the Moon --- direct speech --- characterization --- posthumanism --- inter-species comprehension --- Hindi cinema --- Bollywood --- animal narrator --- world literature --- empathy --- Cartesian dualism --- Maurice Merleau-Ponty --- animal poetry --- ‘Inventing a Horse --- ‘Spermaceti’ --- eco-humanities --- eco-criticism --- eco-philosophy --- Industrial Farm Animal Production --- narrative --- plot --- conflict --- environmental crisis --- catastrophe --- play theory --- Franz Kafka --- manuscripts --- speaking-for --- narrative representation --- literary representation --- animal autobiography --- fictional autobiography --- meta-autobiography --- contextualist narratology --- cultural and literary animal studies --- poetics of knowledge --- zoology --- natural history --- equine autozoography --- horse-science --- narrative voice --- inoperativity --- singing mice --- zoopoetics --- anthropological machine --- community --- music --- Cervantes --- Novelas ejemplares --- El coloquio de los perros --- Novela del casamiento engañoso --- Siglo de Oro --- Early Modern Age --- cynicism --- Diogenes of Sinope --- Montaigne --- Derrida --- Animal Studies --- rhetoric --- animal narration --- fable --- Aesopic fables --- Greek fable --- antagonistic fables --- comics --- animals --- cinema --- sound effects --- science fiction --- Achilles --- Archilochus --- fox --- Gryllus --- Hesiod --- Homer --- Lucian --- pig --- Plutarch --- Pythagoras --- rooster --- Xanthus --- talking dogs --- agency --- animal --- dystopia --- Marie Darrieussecq --- human --- non-human --- Truismes --- Kafka studies --- adaptation studies --- intertextuality --- intermediality --- mimesis --- emulation --- imitation --- repetition --- parody --- autobiography --- genre --- entanglement --- Cixous --- dogs --- earth --- worldviews --- indigenous wisdom traditions --- relationality --- ecology --- language --- more-than-human geography --- multispecies ethnography --- ecopsychology --- anthropology --- environmental philosophy --- decolonization --- intuition --- instinct --- myth --- non-verbal communication --- IK --- TEK --- animality --- film --- White God --- filmic representation of animals --- material ecocriticism --- Moby-Dick --- Werner Herzog --- Hans Sahl --- lyric poetry --- mole --- space --- time --- species --- metamorphosis --- transformation --- exile --- n/a --- fiction-nonfiction distinction --- 'Morenga' --- 'Inventing a Horse --- 'Spermaceti' --- Novela del casamiento engañoso