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Political anthropology /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Plessner, Helmuth, 1892-1985 (Author)
Other Authors: Schott, Nils F. (Translator), Delitz, Heike (Editor), Seyfert, Robert (Editor), Fischer, Joachim, 1951- (writer of afterword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.
Series:Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Heike Delitz and Robert Seyfert
  • The purpose of this book
  • The naturalistic conception of anthropology and its political ambiguity
  • The path to political anthropology
  • The universal conception of political anthropology with regard to the human as the historical subject of attribution of its world
  • Should universal anthropology proceed empirically or a priori?
  • Two possible a priori procedures
  • The new possibility of combining the a priori and empirical views according to the principle of the human's unfathomability
  • Excursus: Dilthey's idea of a philosophy of life
  • The principle of unfathomability, or the principle of open questions
  • The human as power
  • The exposure of the human
  • Excursus: Why it is significant for the question of power that the primacy of philosophy or anthropology is undecidable
  • The powerlessness and predictability of the human
  • The human is tied to a people
  • Epilogue. Political anthropology: Plessner's fascinating voice from Weimar / Joachim Fischer.