Naturalism And Philosophical Anthropology

Author : Phillip Honenberger
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137500883
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naturalism and Philosophical Anthropology written by Phillip Honenberger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a human being? Philosophical anthropology has approached this question with unusual sophistication, experimentalism, and subtlety. This volume explores the philosophical anthropologies of Scheler, Gehlen, Plessner, and Blumenberg in terms of their relevance to contemporary theories of nature, naturalism, organic life, and human affairs.

Author : Kevin M. Cahill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000348768
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture written by Kevin M. Cahill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the question of what it means to be a human being through sustained and original analyses of three important philosophical topics: relativism, skepticism, and naturalism in the social sciences. Kevin Cahill’s approach involves an original employment of historical and ethnographic material that is both conceptual and empirical in order to address relevant philosophical issues. Specifically, while Cahill avoids interpretative debates, he develops an approach to philosophical critique based on Cora Diamond’s and James Conant’s work on the early Wittgenstein. This makes possible the use of a concept of culture that avoids the dogmatism that not only typifies traditional metaphysics but also frequently mars arguments from ordinary language or phenomenology. This is especially crucial for the third part of the book, which involves a cultural-historical critique of the ontology of the self in Stanley Cavell’s work on skepticism. In pursuing this strategy, the book also mounts a novel and timely defense of the interpretivist tradition in the philosophy of the social sciences. Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture will be of interest to researchers working on the philosophy of the social sciences, Wittgenstein, and philosophical anthropology.

Author : Brian Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781551647425
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthropology and Dialectical Naturalism written by Brian Morris and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the world just a cultural construct where people create their own realities? In this illuminating and wide-ranging philosophical treatise, Brian Morris critiques broad swathes of recent theory as he seeks to reclaim anthropology as a historical social science. He achieves this by grounding it within a metaphysic of "dialectical naturalism" or "evolutionary realism"--a tradition long ignored by academic philosophy. After reviewing the anthropological background of this worldview--the Greeks and the Enlightenment--Morris explores two essential themes. First, he critically assesses the main forms of dialectical naturalism, including Darwin's evolutionary theory, Marx's historical materialism, and the hylo-realism of the philosopher-scientist Mario Bunge. Second, he offers a strong plea to retain the dual heritage of anthropology as a historical science that combines both humanism and naturalism. A powerful philosophical manifesto, the book cogently upholds dialectical naturalism as the most grounding philosophy for anthropology and the social sciences.

Author : Brian Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781551647449
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthropology and Dialectical Naturalism written by Brian Morris and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the world just a cultural construct where people create their own realities? In this illuminating and wide-ranging philosophical treatise, Brian Morris critiques broad swathes of recent theory as he seeks to reclaim anthropology as a historical social science. He achieves this by grounding it within a metaphysic of "dialectical naturalism" or "evolutionary realism"--a tradition long ignored by academic philosophy. After reviewing the anthropological background of this worldview--the Greeks and the Enlightenment--Morris explores two essential themes. First, he critically assesses the main forms of dialectical naturalism, including Darwin's evolutionary theory, Marx's historical materialism, and the hylo-realism of the philosopher-scientist Mario Bunge. Second, he offers a strong plea to retain the dual heritage of anthropology as a historical science that combines both humanism and naturalism. A powerful philosophical manifesto, the book cogently upholds dialectical naturalism as the most grounding philosophy for anthropology and the social sciences.

Author : Kevin M. Cahill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000348725
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture written by Kevin M. Cahill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the question of what it means to be a human being through sustained and original analyses of three important philosophical topics: relativism, skepticism, and naturalism in the social sciences. Kevin Cahill’s approach involves an original employment of historical and ethnographic material that is both conceptual and empirical in order to address relevant philosophical issues. Specifically, while Cahill avoids interpretative debates, he develops an approach to philosophical critique based on Cora Diamond’s and James Conant’s work on the early Wittgenstein. This makes possible the use of a concept of culture that avoids the dogmatism that not only typifies traditional metaphysics but also frequently mars arguments from ordinary language or phenomenology. This is especially crucial for the third part of the book, which involves a cultural-historical critique of the ontology of the self in Stanley Cavell’s work on skepticism. In pursuing this strategy, the book also mounts a novel and timely defense of the interpretivist tradition in the philosophy of the social sciences. Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture will be of interest to researchers working on the philosophy of the social sciences, Wittgenstein, and philosophical anthropology.

Author : Anik Waldow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198779658
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Herder written by Anik Waldow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The immediate occasion for this volume was provided by a conference on "The Enlightenment and the Development of Philosophical Anthropology" held at the University of Sydney in November 2013 and organized by Anik Waldow, Dalia Nassar, and Stephen Gaukroger."--Page v.

Author : Phillip Honenberger
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137500883
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naturalism and Philosophical Anthropology written by Phillip Honenberger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a human being? Philosophical anthropology has approached this question with unusual sophistication, experimentalism, and subtlety. This volume explores the philosophical anthropologies of Scheler, Gehlen, Plessner, and Blumenberg in terms of their relevance to contemporary theories of nature, naturalism, organic life, and human affairs.

Author : Marvin Farber
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873950367
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naturalism and Subjectivism written by Marvin Farber and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1959-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will assist readers of philosophical literature to understand and to appraise a large section of the controversial philosophical thought of our time. The central theme is the conflict between naturalism and idealism. The idealist philosophy is considered in its historical outcome of subjectivism, as developed in the phenomenological movement. The use of phenomenology is discussed as a general philosophy, as well as with respect to representative philosophies of human existence. The naturalistic view of experience as represented by Dewey is contrasted with the subjectivistic treatment of “pure” experience which is taken to be somehow “prior” to nature.

Author : Vanessa Lemm
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474466737
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homo Natura written by Vanessa Lemm and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nietzsche coins the enigmatic term homo natura to capture his understanding of the human being as a creature of nature and tasks philosophy with the renaturalisation of humanity. Following Foucault's critique of the human sciences, Vanessa Lemm discusses the reception of Nietzsche's naturalism in philosophical anthropology, psychoanalysis and gender studies. She offers an original reading of homo natura that brings back the ancient Greek idea of nature and sexuality as creative chaos and of the philosophical life as outspoken and embodied truth, perhaps best exemplified by the Cynics' embrace of social and cultural transformation.

Author : Helmuth Plessner
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 082328400X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Levels of Organic Life and the Human written by Helmuth Plessner and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The groundbreaking classic of twentieth-century German philosophy now available in English—with an introduction by J.M. Bernstein. Helmuth Plessner’s Levels of Organic Life and the Human, draws on phenomenological, biological, and social scientific sources to offer a systematic account of nature, life, and human existence. The book considers non-living nature, plants, non-human animals, and human beings a sequence of increasingly complex modes of boundary dynamics—simply put, interactions between a thing’s insides and the surrounding world. Living things are classed and analyzed by their “positionality,” or orientation to and within an environment. According to Plessner’s radical view, the human form of life is excentric—that is, the relation between body and environment is something to which humans themselves are positioned and can take a position. This “excentric positionality” enables human beings to take a stand outside the boundaries of their own body, a possibility with significant implications for knowledge, culture, religion, and technology. A powerful and sophisticated account of embodiment, the Levels shows, with reference both to science and to philosophy, how life can be seen on its own terms to establish its own boundaries, and how, from the standpoint of life, the human establishes itself in relation to the nonhuman. As such, the book is not merely a historical monument but a source for invigorating a range of vital current conversations around the animal, posthumanism, the material turn, and the biology and sociology of cognition.