Finite but Unbounded: New Approaches in Philosophical Anthropology
This collection will be of great interest to philosophers and anthropologists alike, and essential reading for anyone interested in the interconnections between the two disciplines.
Hovedinnhold
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.
Table of Contents
Martin Gustafsson Introduction 1
Tim Ingold To Human Is a Verb 9
Thomas Schwarz Wentzer Approaching Philosophical Anthropology: Human, the Responsive Being 25
Mark Bevir Situated Agency: A Postfoundational Alternative to Autonomy 47
Martin Gustafsson Notes on Life and Human Nature 67
Emily Martin Ethnography, History and Philosophy of Experimental Psychology 97
Kevin Cahill A Degenerate Case of Action 119
Margaret Lock The Alzheimer Enigma in an Ageing World 133
Margrit Shildrick Individuality, Identity and Supplementarity in Transcorporeal Embodiment 153
Lars Fr. H. Svendsen The Loneliness of the Liberal Individual 173
Vincent Descombes The Dual Nature of the Modern Individual 187