Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction Philosophy and Anthropology in Dialogues and Conversations
- Part I Nurturing the Field: Towards Mutual Fecundation and Transformation of Philosophy and Anthropology
- Chapter 1 The Project of Philosophical Anthropology
- Chapter 2 The Self-Preservation of Man: Remarks on the Relation between Modernity and Philosophical Anthropology
- Chapter 3 Whither Modernity? Hybridization, Postoccidentalism, Postdevelopment and Transmodernity
- Chapter 4 Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy in Anthropology
- Chapter 5 The Engagement of Philosophy and Anthropology in the Interpretive Turn and Beyond: Towards an Anthropology of the Contemporary
- Chapter 6 Mediation through Cognitive Dynamics: Philosophical Anthropology and the Conflicts of Our Time
- Chapter 7 Philosophy as Anthropocentrism: Language, Life and Aporia
- Part II Sources of Philosophical Anthropology
- Part III Philosophical Anthropology at Work
- Afterword The Return of Philosophical Anthropology
Chapter 1 - The Project of Philosophical Anthropology
from Part I - Nurturing the Field: Towards Mutual Fecundation and Transformation of Philosophy and Anthropology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction Philosophy and Anthropology in Dialogues and Conversations
- Part I Nurturing the Field: Towards Mutual Fecundation and Transformation of Philosophy and Anthropology
- Chapter 1 The Project of Philosophical Anthropology
- Chapter 2 The Self-Preservation of Man: Remarks on the Relation between Modernity and Philosophical Anthropology
- Chapter 3 Whither Modernity? Hybridization, Postoccidentalism, Postdevelopment and Transmodernity
- Chapter 4 Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy in Anthropology
- Chapter 5 The Engagement of Philosophy and Anthropology in the Interpretive Turn and Beyond: Towards an Anthropology of the Contemporary
- Chapter 6 Mediation through Cognitive Dynamics: Philosophical Anthropology and the Conflicts of Our Time
- Chapter 7 Philosophy as Anthropocentrism: Language, Life and Aporia
- Part II Sources of Philosophical Anthropology
- Part III Philosophical Anthropology at Work
- Afterword The Return of Philosophical Anthropology
Summary
The notion of a philosophical anthropology has almost entirely dropped out of contemporary intellectual discourse, both in philosophy and in anthropology. Among the few places where it is alive as an active concept or form of intellectual inquiry is in Christian (mainly Roman Catholic) theology. There are reasons for this absence, which we will shortly elaborate on, but the virtual disappearance of the idea of a philosophical anthropology is an unfortunate one, as it is potentially a notion that can not only provide a bridge between anthropology and philosophy – linked as we shall see by many common concerns – but also an intellectual space in which many fundamental questions of human existence have been and can still be posed. This essay proposes to look at the history of the idea of a philosophical anthropology, its contemporary ramifications and usages, and both its shortcomings and potential as an organizational centre for the key existential questions marginalized in much mainstream Western philosophy and almost entirely absent from the discourse of contemporary anthropology.
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- Philosophy and AnthropologyBorder Crossing and Transformations, pp. 21 - 38Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2013