Levels of Organic Life and the Human : : An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology /

Levels of Organic Life and the Human : : An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology / / Helmuth Plessner.

The most important work by a key figure in German thought, Helmuth Plessner's Levels of Organic Life and the Human, originally published in 1928, appears here for the first time in English, accompanied by a substantial Introduction by J. M. Bernstein, after having served for decades as an influ...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
VerfasserIn:
Plessner, Helmuth,
TeilnehmendeR:
Bernstein, J. M.
Hyatt, Millay.
MitwirkendeR:
Bernstein, J. M.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Forms of Living
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Physical Description:1 online resource (448 p.) :; 4
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword from the Helmuth Plessner Society
  • Translator's Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Preface to the First Edition (1928)
  • Preface to the Second Edition (1965)
  • Introduction
  • 1. Aim and Scope of the Study
  • 2. The Cartesian Objection and the Nature of the Problem
  • 3. The Thesis
  • 4. The Modes of Being of Vitality
  • 5. The Organizational Modes of Living Being: Plants and Animals
  • 6. The Sphere of the Animal
  • 7. The Sphere of the Human
  • Appendix
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Index

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