Contents

Foreword

Jos De Mul

9-10

Artificial by nature

An introduction to Plessner's philosophical anthropology

Jos De Mul

11-40

Philosophical anthropology

A third way between Darwinism and Foucaultism

Joachim Fischer

41-56

The nascence of modern man

Two approaches to the problem - biological evolutionary theory and philosophical anthropology

Hans-Peter Krüger

57-78

"True" and "false" evolutionism

Bergson's critique of spencer, Darwin & co and its relevance for Plessner (and us)

Heike Delitz

79-98

Life, concept and subject

Plessner's vital turn in the light of Kant and Bergson

Thomas Ebke

99-110

Bodily experience and experiencing one's body

Maarten Coolen

111-128

Plessner and the mathematical-physical perspective

The prescientific objectivity of the human body

Jasper Van Buuren

129-148

The body exploited

Torture and the destruction of selfhood

Janna Van Grunsven

149-162

Plessner's theory of eccentricity

A contribution to the philosophy of medicine

Oreste Tolone

162-176

The duty of personal identity

Authenticity and irony

Boccignone

177-194

Anthropology as a foundation of cultural philosophy

The connection between human nature and culture by Helmuth Plessner and Ernst Cassirer

Henrike Lerch

195-210

Bi-directional boundaries

Eccentric life and its environmens

Robert Mugerauer

211-228

The unbearable freedom of dwelling

Jetske Van Oosten

229-242

Eccentric positionality and urban space

Huib Ernste

243-260

Strangely familiar

The debate on multiculturalism and Plessner's philosophical anthropology

Kirsten Pols

261-274

De-masking as a characteristic of social work?

Veronika Magyar-Haas

275-288

Helmuth Plessner as a social theorist

Role playing in legal discourse

Bas Hengstmengel

289-300

Habermas's new turn towards Plessner's philosophical anthropology

Matthias Schlossberger

301-316

The quest for the sources of the self, seen from the vantage point of Plessner's material a priori

Petran Kockelkoren

317-334

The brain in the vat as the epistemic object of neurobiology

Gesa Lindemann

335-356

Switching "on", switching "off"

Does neurosurgery in Parkinson's disease create man-machines?

Johannes Hätscher

357-374

On humor and "laughing" rats

The importance of Plessner for affective neuroscience

Helen Pott

375-406

A moral bubble

The influence of online personalization on moral repositioning

Esther Keymolen

387-406

Eccentric positionality as a precondition for the criminal liability of artificial life forms

Mireille Hildebrandt

407-424

Not terminated

Cyborgized men still remain human beings

Dierk Spreen

425-442

Plessner and technology

Philosophical anthropology meets the posthuman

Peter-Paul Verbeek

443-456

Philosophical anthropology 2.0

Reading Plessner in the age of converging techonologies

Jos De Mul

457-476

Plessner's collected writings (Gesammelte Schriften)

About the authors

Name index