| Description |
ix, 191 pages |
| Contents |
1. Anthropology and historical materialism Ludwig Feuerbach's anthropological materialism -- Marx's critique of Feuerbach -- Positions in the Marxist discussion of anthropology -- 2. Anthropological foundations of social action Preliminary remarks on the German tradition of 'philosophical anthropology' -- Philosophical anthropology as a theory of action: Arnold Gehlen's attempt to construct a systematic anthropology -- Action and intersubjectivity: the difference between Mead and Gehlen -- Human expressiveness: Helmuth Plessner's anthropological hermeneutics -- Instinct and need: Agnes Heller's social anthropology -- Human perception as sensuous cognition: the critical psychology of Klaus Holzkamp -- 3. Historical anthropology Control of affect and the weaving of the social fabric: Norbert Elias's theory of the civilising process -- The disciplining of the body and decentralised power: Michel Foucault's structuralist analysis of history -- Moral evolution and domination of nature: Jürgen Habermas's theory of socio-cultural evolution |
| Notes |
Translation of: Soziales Handeln und menschliche Natur |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 180-188 |
| Notes |
Translation of: Soziales Handeln und menschliche Natur |
| Subject |
Anthropology -- Methodology -- History.
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Anthropology -- Philosophy -- History.
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Philosophical anthropology.
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Social action.
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Social history.
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| Author |
Joas, Hans, 1948-
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| LC no. |
88011913 |
| ISBN |
0521339359 |
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