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

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 notio...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research , 12
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 212 p.)
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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