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Political anthropology /

0810138026

9780810138025

0810138018

9780810138001

9780810138018

Political anthropology /

[Book]

Helmuth Plessner ; translated from the German by Nils F. Schott ; edited and with an introduction by Heike Delitz and Robert Seyfert ; epilogue by Joachim Fischer.

Evanston, Illinois :

Northwestern University Press,

2018.

©2018

1 online resource

Northwestern University studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy

"Originally published in German in 1931 under the title Macht und menschliche Natur. Ein Versuch zur Anthropologie der geschichtlichen Weltansicht."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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JSTOR

22573/ctv8dhtnp

Political anthropology.

Macht und menschliche Natur.

English

Political anthropology.

Power (Social sciences)

Radicalism.

PHILOSOPHY-- General.

Political anthropology.

Power (Social sciences)

Radicalism.

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PHI-- 019000

Plessner, Helmuth,1892-1985

Delitz, Heike

Fischer, Joachim,1951-

Schott, Nils F.

Seyfert, Robert

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