Being Humans
Anthropological Universality and Particularity in Transdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
Published on 6. February 2013
IX, 426 pages
978-3-11-082280-9 (ISBN)
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Being Humans
Anthropological Universality and Particularity in Transdisciplinary Perspectives
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Anthropological Universality and Particularity in Transdisciplinary Perspectives
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Content
- Intro
- Preface
- On Being Humans. An Introduction
- I Conceptualising the Human
- Anthropological Universality. On the Validity of Generalisations about Human Nature
- "World-Openness" and the Question of Anthropological Universalism. Comments on Justin Stagl's Paper
- A Reply to Neil Roughley
- Human Nature, Human Variety, Human Freedom
- A Cultural-Historical View of Human Nature
- Human Diversity and Human Nature. The Life and Times of a False Dichotomy
- II Contexts of the Human
- Encountering the Other through Grammar
- A Grammar of Human Life? Comments on Rom Harré's Paper
- A Reply to Thomas Luckmann
- Human Beings and "An Absolute Conception"
- Human Universals and their Implications
- Are Women Human?
- III Anthropology, Literature and the Aesthetic
- Redefining the Human. A Survey of Approaches to Literary Anthropology
- Approaching Literary Anthropology. Comments on Aleida Assmann's Paper
- A Reply to Gottfried Seebass
- Understanding Homer: Literature, History and Ideal Anthropology
- The Implications of Human Picture Making: The Articulation of Visual Space
- Universality and Cultural Particularity in Visual Aesthetics
- IV Humanity, Morality and Politics
- Learning to be Natural
- Emotion, Moral Value and Being Human. Comments on Ronald de Sousa's Paper
- A Reply to Wolfgang Friedlmeier
- Politics and the Unnatural Infirmity of Being Human
- Rationality, Autonomy and Basic Needs
- Hedgehogs, Foxes, and Persons: Resistance and Moral Creativity in East Germany and South India
- Afterword: "Human Nature". A Conceptual Matrix
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
