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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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In Abundant Earth, Eileen Crist not only documents the rising tide of biodiversity loss, but also lays out the drivers of this wholesale destruction and how we can push past them. Looking beyond the familiar litany of causes-a large and growing human population, rising livestock numbers, expanding economies and international trade, and spreading infrastructures and incursions upon wildlands-she asks the key question: if we know human expansionism is to blame for this ecological crisis, why are we not taking the needed steps to halt our expansionism? Crist argues that to do so would require a two-pronged approach. Scaling down calls upon us to lower the global human population while working within a human-rights framework, to deindustrialize food production, and to localize economies and contract global trade. Pulling back calls upon us to free, restore, reconnect, and rewild vast terrestrial and marine ecosystems. However, the pervasive worldview of human supremacy-the conviction that humans are superior to all other life-forms and entitled to use these life-forms and their habitats-normalizes and promotes humanity's ongoing expansion, undermining our ability to enact these linked strategies and preempt the mounting suffering and dislocation of both humans and nonhumans. Abundant Earth urges us to confront the reality that humanity will not advance by entrenching its domination over the biosphere. On the contrary, we will stagnate in the identity of nature-colonizer and decline into conflict as we vie for natural resources. Instead, we must chart another course, choosing to live in fellowship within the vibrant ecologies of our wild and domestic cohorts, and enfolding human inhabitation within the rich expanse of a biodiverse, living planet.

Biodiversity conservation --- Human-animal relationships --- Human-plant relationships --- anthropocentrism --- biodiversity crisis --- bioregionalism --- ecological civilization --- food production --- human population --- human supremacy --- pulling back --- scaling down --- wilderness

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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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Debating Humanity explores sociological and philosophical efforts to delineate key features of humanity that identify us as members of the human species. After challenging the normative contradictions of contemporary posthumanism, this book goes back to the foundational debate on humanism between Jean-Paul Sartre and Martin Heidegger in the 1940s and then re-assesses the implicit and explicit anthropological arguments put forward by seven leading postwar theorists: self-transcendence (Hannah Arendt), adaptation (Talcott Parsons), responsibility (Hans Jonas), language (Jürgen Habermas), strong evaluations (Charles Taylor), reflexivity (Margaret Archer) and reproduction of life (Luc Boltanski). Genuinely interdisciplinary and boldly argued, Daniel Chernilo has crafted a novel philosophical sociology that defends a universalistic principle of humanity as vital to any adequate understanding of social life.

Humanism. --- Human beings. --- Philosophical anthropology. --- Anthropology, Philosophical --- Man (Philosophy) --- Civilization --- Life --- Ontology --- Humanism --- Persons --- Philosophy of mind --- Homo sapiens --- Human race --- Humanity (Human beings) --- Humankind --- Humans --- Man --- Mankind --- People --- Hominids --- Philosophy --- Classical education --- Classical philology --- Philosophical anthropology --- Renaissance --- Sociology --- Anthropocentrism --- Hannah Arendt --- Human --- Immanuel Kant --- Jean-Paul Sartre --- Jürgen Habermas --- Martin Heidegger --- Social norm

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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.

History of engineering & technology --- 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