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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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The work of the German philosopher Helmuth Plessner (1892-1985) inspired generations of scholars and has been enjoying a recent renaissance. This volume offers the first substantial English-language introduction to Plessner's philosophical anthropology, contextualising it by comparison with the more familiar contemporaries such as Bergson, Cassirer and Merleau-Ponty, but also showing his relevance to contemporary discussion in a variety of scholarly fields. 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.

Philosophical anthropology --- Biology --- Congresses. --- Philosophy --- Plessner, Helmuth, --- Stufen des Organischen und der Mensch --- eccentricity --- culture --- technology --- philosophical anthropology --- plessner --- Henri Bergson --- Human --- Life --- Organism --- Life sciences --- Life (Biology) --- Natural history --- Philosophical anthropology. --- Anthropologie philosophique --- Biologie --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie

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Is materialism right to claim that the world of everyday-life experience - the phenomenal world - is nothing but an illusion produced in physical reality, notably in the brain? Or is Merleau-Ponty right when he defends the fundamental character of the phenomenal world while rejecting physical realism? Jasper van Buuren addresses these questions by exploring the nature of the body proper in Merleau-Ponty and Plessner, arguing that physical and phenomenal realism are not mutually exclusive but complementary. The argument includes a close examination of the relationships between scientific and pre-scientific perspectives, between living and non-living things, and between humans and animals.

Human body (Philosophy) --- Physics --- Science --- Reality. --- Materialism. --- Phenomenology. --- Philosophical anthropology. --- Philosophy. --- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, --- Plessner, Helmuth, --- Body, Human (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Merleau-Ponty; Plessner; Body; Physical Reality; Phenomenal World; Realism; Phenomenology; Materialism; Philosophy of Body; Philosophical Anthropology; Philosophy --- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice --- Merleau-Ponty, Jean Jacques Maurice, --- Merlō-Ponty, Mōris, --- Ponty, Jean Jacques Maurice Merleau-, --- Ponty, Maurice Merleau-, --- מרלו־פונטי, מוריס, --- Body. --- Phenomenal World. --- Philosophical Anthropology. --- Philosophy of Body. --- Physical Reality. --- Plessner. --- Realism.