Landmann .:. Fundamental Anthropology

Landmann, Michael,
Fundamental Anthropology. Washington: Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology & University Press of America, 1985. xxiv, 330 Seiten mit Register. Leinen. 235 x 155 mm. 637 g

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* Current continental research, 403. - Foreword by Ze'ev Levy. Edited and translated by David J. Parent. - Vorderdeckel mit Kratzspuren.
Bestell-Nr.159589

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Landmann | Philosophie | Philosophy | Anthropologie | Anthropology | Philosophische Anthropologie

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Michael Landmann, one of the prominent philosophers and scholars of our time, died in Haifa, Israel on January 25, 1984 at the age of seventy. He has enriched contemporary philosophy through his numerous writings whose principal theme was man's place in the world, or 'philosophical anthropology,' summarized as the conception of man as an individual with knowledge of his place within a historical tradition; man is therefore an expression of subjective and objective spirit at the same time. In this manner, he merges philosophical anthropology with cultural anthropology. Co-published with the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, this volume includes a foreword by Ze'ev Levy.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD TO THE AMERICAN EDITION
by Ze'ev Levy (University of Haifa) xl

INTRODUCTION: HOMO ANTHROPOLOGUS
Man in Religion, Ethics, Epistemology, Psychology
Existentialism, Ethnology and Human 3
Man in Metaphysics 9
Man in Theory of History and Society 13

INTRODUCTORY PART
CHAPTER ONE: CREATURA CREATRIX: ORIGINS AND OBJECTIVES OF
PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
The Image of Man and Anthropology 19
Forerunners of Contemporary Anthropology
Phenomenology and Lebensphilosophie 20
Metaphysics and Geisteswissenschaften. 24
Image of Man and Ideal .26
The Contribution of Animal Psychology and Human Biology .29
Anthropology and Existentialism .31
CHAPTER TWO: OVERCOMING NATURA GEMINA ANTHROPOLOGICAL
CULTURE - MECHANICAL INTELLIGENCE
Overcoming Natura Gemina — Inventive Mind as the Basis of Human Existence .35
Anthropogonal Culture — Formative Culture a Factor of Man's Becoming .37
Mechanical Intelligence The Technical Simulation of Mind 39

PART I.
FOUNDATIONS OF CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
CHAPTER THREE: FROM PHYSIO-PSYCHIC ANTHROPOLOGY
TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
The Tradition of Individual Anthropology .45
Animal and
Man a Cultural and
The Created an impediment and of
CHAPTER POUR: THE OV CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Creativity 59
Culturaliey 60
Sociability 62
Historicity 66
CHAPTER FIVE: MAN MORE THAN BODY AND SOUL
Tradition and Reason Che Struggle Cor Maatery
Culture as Che Third Strueeural Factor
Shaped by Culture and Able to Shape 78

PART II.
MAN AND OBJECTIVATION IN MUTUAL
CHAPTER MAN AS THE LOCUS OF OBJECTIVE MIND
The Phenomenon of Objective Mindt Dual 81
and 83
Objective Mind's Independence and Re—Linking 84
The Achievementg oc Objective 88
Retro—shaping by Objective Mind 91
Incongruencies and Conflicts 93
CHAPTER SEVEN: OBJECTIVATION AS SELF-CONSTITUTION
(SYSTEMATIC PART)
Culture as Man's Road to 111mgeIC 97
Man ag a Retro—ohaped Product of hio 98
The Retro—AchIevement of Expressive Movements. . 99
The Reciprocal Achievement of the Processual
Forms and Shapes 100
The Strengthening Power of Objectivity 103
CHAPTER EIGHT: MAN AND OBJECTIVITY
Anthropology in a Nutshell. The Objectivity of
Things and the Objectivations of the Created. 105
Objective Standards and Values. 107
The Created as the Mirror of a Norm and the
Expression of the Internal 109
Work and Life as Created Fields 110

PART III.
THE ANTHROPINA
CHAPTER NINE: THE TWENTY-THREE ANTHROPINA
Unspecializatlon, Creativity, Awareness,
Freedom, Individuality 113
Knowledge In the Total Human Context 115
The Shaping of Culture and History 118
Malleability, Man as Shaped by Culture and
History. animal educandum, Traditionality,
Sociability 119
Para—anthropologies and 120
CHAPTER TEN: THE SYSTEM OF ANTHROPINA 125
Anthropina of Creativity .126
Anthroplna of Culturallty .129
Anthroplna of Interplay between Creativity
and Culturality .132
Anthropina of Knowledge 135

PART IV.
SPECIAL PROBLEMS OF ANTHROPOLOGY
CHAPTER ELEVEN: MAN AS A LINK IN EVOLUTION
AND AS A SEPARATE TYPE
Evolution and Typology . 141
Application to the Relation between Man
and Animal 145
CHAPTER TWELVE: FOR AND AGAINST BEING HUMAN
Resistance to Physicalization, No Resistance
to the Divinization of Man. 151
Suffering from Being Human 152
Fear and Full Recognition of Being Human. 153
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE INDIVIDUAL -
ORIGINALITY AND MALLEABILITY OF MAN
The "Anthropine Gap" Creativity and Malleability
as its First Closing 155
The Second Closing of the Anthropine Gap by
Cultural Traditions — Alternation between
Tradition and Individual Creativity 157
Going One ts Own Independent Way and Repetition
of Patterns — An Inevitable Human Antinomy. 160

PART V.
ON THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: PROBLEMS OF A HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY 163
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE GREEKS AS PERFECTERS OF HUMANITY
Creativity, Freedom, Individuality, Reason
versus Tradition 171
Participation in Value. Greek and Modern
Individuality. Remembered Past 175
World—Open, Non—PracticaI Knowledge 178
A PLATONIC SAYING AS A QUOTATION FROM DIOGENES
OF APOLLONIA 183
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE ANTHROPOLOGY AND IMAGE OF MAN OF THE
HEBREWS 187
The Explicit Anthropology of Genesis
a) Fifteen 188
b) Likeness to God and Relation to the Animal. 191
The Law
a) Theonomy. .193
b) Equality, Individualization, Rebirth 195
History and Fate
a) History. 198
b) Destiny 202
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: HERDER'S IDEAS FOR A PHILOSOPHY
OF MANKIND AS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Preparations in the Treatise on Language 205
The "Ideas" 210
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: OBJECTIVATION AS SELF-CONSTITUTION
(HISTORICAL PART) 219

APPENDIX:
TO ADOLF PORTMANN (on his 70th Birthday) 225
ADOLF PORTMANN IN AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONTEXT (a
television statement on his 75th Birthday) 228
ARNOLD GEHLEN IN THE MIRROR OF HIS OPPONENTS
(on his 70th Birthday, Jan. 29, 1974) 229
HOMO FERUS 235
ANTHROPOLOGY (PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECT): A Lexicon Article 237
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
KARL WOLFSKEHL, THE GENESIS OF MAN 240
HEINRICH KLEINER'S ANTHROPOLOGICAL INRITINGS 244

PART VI:
NEW CHAPTERS IN THE SECOND EDITION
CHAPTER NINETEEN: FROM CONTEMPLATOR OF THE WORLD TO SELF-INVENTOR:
ANTHROPOLOGY AS INTERSECTION DISCIPLINE
The Intersection of Philosophy and Experimental Scienc. 253
Metaphysics Naturalism and the Two—Substances Doctrin 256
Biology 260
Psychology, Animal Psychology, Ethnology 262
Ethics, Epistemology, History of Philosophy, Ethnology,
Human and Social Sciences, Sociology 266
Phenomenology, Lebensphilosophle, Pragmatism, 269
CHAPTER TWENTY: MAN REACHES FOR THE PAST AND THE FUTURE
Real and Perceived 273
Anthropology of the Time—Experience. 275
Primacy of the Futur 277
Forms of the Future Relation 278
The Function of Memory. 280
The Means—End Pattern. 283
Purposefulness and Disposability 284
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Bibliography
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: TRADITION AND INNOVATION
Anthropological Foundations 287
The Conflict of Conservative and Innovative Tendencies. 289
The Acceleration of the Cultural Process and Originality.291
Bibliography 293
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: HISTORICITY
Forms and Stages of the Relation to the Past: Early
Philosophy of History and the Mythic Consciousness. 295
Greek Law and Prophetic Goal 297
Functions of Historical Memory In the Modern Age. 297
Relativistic Historicism and 299
Forms of Relation to the Future: Fixed and Open Future. 300
Man Takes Command of History 302
Bibliography 302

APPENDIX II: PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
AND THE IMAGES OF MAN : A REPLY 305
FOOTNOTES 309
INDEX OF TOPICS 315
INDEX OF NAMES .325

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