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Viereinhalb Jahre lang reiste der Berliner Fotograf Peter Badge um die Welt und traf alle 260 noch lebenden Nobelpreisträger. Das Resultat dieses einmaligen Projekts ist ein beeindruckender Bildband mit schlichten Schwarzweiß-Porträts, ergänzt durch die jeweilige Kurzbiographie.
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.
The book explores the issue of non-humans and their role and position within contemporary social sciences. Inspired by current trends of bridging the dichotomy of nature and culture, the authors use the “non-human“ as a prism that offers a different perspective of the world, society, culture, and last but not least, being(s). To start paying attention to non-humans has the potential to hybridize social sciences and in turn enrich them as well as to offer social scientists novel perspectives and tools to approach social phenomena. Such an attitude might in turn lead to a reassessment of understanding of the relationship between the world and being, and of the categories of being and subje...
The present volume represents the first book-length monograph on the Marxian concept of totality as seen from a philosophical and sociopolitical perspective. Drawing on a large number of classical and contemporary works, Boveiri elucidates the distinctive features of Marxian totality with a particular focus on its methodology. The work has four fundamental elements, or moments. First, it develops arguments against undialectical conceptions of totality. Then it presents a critical reading of Hegelian totality focused on The Science of Logic. Its penultimate section examines the shortcomings of two well-known conceptions of totality, one by Georg Lukács, another by Karel Kosík, before a final section examines in detail the developmental characteristics of Marxian totality. The volume concludes with a chapter dealing with methodological implications.
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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 l...
This edited volume presents papers on this alternative philosophy of biology that could be called “continental philosophy of biology,” and the variety of positions and solutions that it has spawned. In doing so, it contributes to debates in the history and philosophy of science and the history of philosophy of science, as well as to the craving for ‘history’ and/or ‘theory’ in the theoretical biological disciplines. In addition, however, it also provides inspiration for a broader image of philosophy of biology, in which these traditional issues may have a place. The volume devotes specific attention to the work of Georges Canguilhem, which is central to this alternative tradition of “continental philosophy of biology”. This is the first collection on Georges Canguilhem and the Continental tradition in philosophy of biology. The book should be of interest to philosophers of biology, continental philosophers, historians of biology and those interested in broader traditions in philosophy of science.