Contents
Foreword
Artificial by Nature
Part I Anthropology
1 Philosophical Anthropology
2 The Nascence of Modern Man
3 “True” and “False” Evolutionism
4 Life, Concept and Subject
5 Bodily Experience and Experiencing One’s Body
6 Plessner and the Mathematical- Physical Perspective
7 The Body Exploited
8 Plessner’s Theory of Eccentricity
9 The Duty of Personal Identity
Part II Culture
10 Anthropology as a Foundation of Cultural Philosophy
11 Bi-Directional Boundaries
12 The Unbearable Freedom of Dwelling
13 Eccentric Positionality and Urban Space
14 Strangely Familiar
15 De-Masking as a Characteristic of Social Work?
16 Helmuth Plessner as a Social Theorist
17 Habermas’s New Turn towards Plessner’s Philosophical Anthropology
Part III Technology
18 The Quest for the Sources of the Self, Seen from the Vantage Point of Plessner’s Material a Priori
19 The Brain in the Vat as the Epistemic Object of Neurobiology
20 Switching “On,” Switching “Off”
21 On Humor and “Laughing” Rats
22 A Moral Bubble
23 Eccentric Positionality as a Precondition for the Criminal Liability Of Artificial Life Forms
24 Not Terminated
25 Plessner and Technology
26 Philosophical Anthropology 2.0
Appendix. Plessner’s Collected Writings (Gesammelte Schriften)
About the Authors
Name Index
Subject Index