Finite but Unbounded: New Approaches in Philosophical Anthropology / / ed. by Kevin M. Cahill, Martin Gustafsson, Thomas Schwarz Wentzer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Bevir, Mark,; Cahill, Kevin,; Descombes, Vincent,; Gustafsson, Martin,; Ingold, Tim,; Lock, Margaret,; Martin, Emily,; Shildrick, Margrit,; Svendsen, Lars Fr. H.,; Wentzer, Thomas Schwarz,
• HerausgeberIn: Cahill, Kevin M.,; Gustafsson, Martin,; Wentzer, Thomas Schwarz,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research , 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 212 p.)

World-leading anthropologists and philosophers pursue the perplexing question fundamental to both disciplines: What is it to think of ourselves as human? A common theme is the open-ended and context-dependent nature of our notion of the human, one upshot of which is that perplexities over that notion can only be dealt with in a piecemeal fashion, and in relation to concrete real-life circumstances. Philosophical anthropology, understood as the exploration of such perplexities, will thus be both recognizably philosophical in character and inextricably bound up with anthropological fieldwork. The volume is put together accordingly: Precisely by mixing ostensibly philosophical papers with papers that engage in close anthropological study of concrete issues, it is meant to reflect the vital tie between these two aspects of the overall philosophical-anthropological enterprise. The collection will be of great interest to philosophers and anthropologists alike, and essential reading for anyone interested in the interconnections between the two disciplines.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- To Human Is a Verb -- Approaching Philosophical Anthropology: Human, the Responsive Being -- Situated Agency: A Postfoundational Alternative to Autonomy -- Notes on Life and Human Nature -- Ethnography, History and Philosophy of Experimental Psychology -- A Degenerate Case of Action -- The Alzheimer Enigma in an Ageing World -- Individuality, Identity and Supplementarity in Transcorporeal Embodiment -- The Loneliness of the Liberal Individual -- The Dual Nature of the Modern Individual -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects