Modern and Postmodern Crises of Symbolic Structures

Essays in Philosophical Anthropology
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-44095-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 356, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 478 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Studies in the History of Western Philosophy

In debates about philosophical anthropology human beings have been defined in different ways. In Modern and Postmodern Crises of Symbolic Structures, the contributors view the human being primarily as animal symbolicum. They examine how the human being creates, interprets and changes symbolic structures, as well as how he is affected and impacted by them. The focus lies on the context of modernity and postmodernity, which is characterized by a number of interrelated crises of symbolic structures. These crises have affected the realms of science, religion, art, politics and education, and thus provoked crucial changes in the human being’s relations to himself, others and reality. The crises are not viewed merely as manifestations of dysfunctions, but rather as complex processes of transformation that also provide new opportunities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sajda, Peter

Šajda, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1 How to Reform Humanism in the Post-human Era?

Yves Charles Zarka

2 The Struggles of the Individual in a Nihilistic Age: Kierkegaard’s and Jünger’s Critiques of Modernity

Peter Šajda

3 The Intertwining of Phenomenology and Philosophical Anthropology: from Husserl to Plessner

Jaroslava Vydrová

4 Under Interpellation: Phenomenology, Anthropology and Politics

Delia Popa

5 Feuerbach’s Conception of Theology or Philosophy of Religion as Anthropology

Jon Stewart

6 The Transformative Power of Art in “Richard Wagner in Bayreuth”

Jozef Majerník

7 The “Distraction” of Contemporary Art according to Yves Michaud

Róbert Karul

8 Czechoslovakia after 1989 through Arendt’s Eyes: from Pariahs to Strong Men

Dagmar Kusá and James Griffith

9 Notes on Phenomenology and Revolution

Michal Lipták

10 Performing the University

Ivana Komanická

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Šajda, Ph.D. (1977), is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He has published monographs and many articles on the philosophy of existence, including The Kierkegaard Renaissance: Philosophy, Religion, Politics (Premedia, 2016).