TY - JOUR A1 - Krüger, Hans-Peter T1 - Der geistig-kulturelle Umgang mit der Covid-19-Pandemie und ihrer Wirtschaftskrise als Testfall BT - Zum Vergleich des globalen Westens und des globalen Ostens Ende 2020 BT - comparing the global West and the global East at the end of 2020 JF - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie : Zweimonatsschrift der internationalen philosophischen Forschung N2 - Why has the global West (North America, Europe) handled the covid-19 pandemic and the corresponding economic crisis so much worse than the global East (East Asia)? The crises demonstrate the degree to which the West is shaped by its forms of competition and the East by its forms of cooperation. In the West, we have become habitualised to American neoliberalism over the last two generations. In the East, varieties of neo-Confucianism and neo-Buddhism have been transformed into national cultures. The way humans understand their position in the world intellectually and react to crises according to corresponding habit makes an effective difference. The present comparison between global East and West makes use of Hannah Arendt's conception of politics and the shared world as well as of Helmuth Plessner's conception of mediated immediacy in forms of modern biopower. The pandemic is a catalyst within the decline of the West and the rise of the East. T2 - The intellectual and cultural approach to the Covid19-pandemic and its economic crisis as a test case KW - self in cooperation KW - self in competition KW - future world history KW - global KW - history KW - biopolitics KW - biopower KW - shared world KW - mediated immediacy KW - Hannah KW - Arendt KW - Helmuth Plessner Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/dzph-2021-0004 SN - 0012-1045 SN - 2192-1482 VL - 69 IS - 1 SP - 67 EP - 97 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Krüger, Hans-Peter T1 - Closed environment and open world BT - On the significance of Uexkull's biology for Helmuth Plessner's natural philosophy T2 - Jakob von Uexküll and philosophy: life, environments, anthropology N2 - According to Plessner, both adaptation and selection can be conceived not just as requested by the environment but also as actively proceeding from the organism. In this respect, Plessner finds in Uexküll’s new biology a powerful counterweight to the constraints of Darwinism. However, despite all the points in common in their respective understanding of the problem, Plessner reproaches to Uexküll to have entirely missed the intermediate layer of the lived body [Leib] between the organism and its environment. Unlike Uexküll, concerning the more developed animals, Plessner took up elements of animal psychology from Wolfgang Köhler and Frederik Jacobus Johannes Buytendijk. Finally, Plessner finds insufficiencies also in Uexküll’s distinction between the notion of world and the notion of environment, which would lead to the parallel positing of different environments. In reaction to Uexküll’s leveling of all environments, Plessner drafted a philosophical-anthropological spectrum between the intelligent way of living observed in the great apes, whose intelligence had been demonstrated, and the co-wordly life of the symbolic mind as seen in the personal sphere of human life. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-0-429-27909-6 SN - 978-0-367-23273-3 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429279096 SP - 89 EP - 105 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krüger, Hans-Peter T1 - How is the Human Life-Form of Mind Really Possible in Nature? BT - Parallels Between John Dewey and Helmuth Plessner JF - Human studies N2 - J. Dewey and H. Plessner both and independently of one another treated the central question of what new task philosophy must set itself if the assumption is correct that the life-form of mind, i.e., the mental life-form of humans, arose in nature and must also sustain itself in the future within nature. If nature has to reconceived so as to make the irreducible qualities of life and mind truly possible, then it can no longer be restricted to the role of physical material. Conversely humans cannot no longer take on the role of God outside and independent of nature. Instead these philosophers distinguish between three plateaus (Dewey) or stages (Plessner), between physical (inorganic) nature, psycho-physical (living) nature and the nature that is mental life. This distinction is drawn such that a connection between the plateaus is truly possible. The third level, that of the mental form of life, answers mentally within conduct to the break with the first two levels. Hence it depends in the future as well on the continuously renewed difference (between the precarious and the stable for Dewey, between immediacy and mediation for Plessner) in our experience of nature. Within this difference nature as a whole remains an open unknown, which is why we can credit Dewey with a philosophy of diversified and negative holism, Plessner with a differential philosophy of the negativity of the absolute. KW - Evolution of the human KW - Non-reductive naturalism KW - Open holism KW - Life forms KW - Philosophical anthropology KW - Presuppositions of evolution Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-017-9429-5 SN - 0163-8548 SN - 1572-851X VL - 42 IS - 1 SP - 47 EP - 64 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krüger, Hans-Peter T1 - Critical Anthropology? To the Relationship between Philosophical Anthropology and Critical Theory JF - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie : Zweimonatsschrift der internationalen philosophischen Forschung N2 - This article compares Max Horkheimer’s and Theodor W. Adorno’s foundation of the Frankfurt Critical Theory with Helmuth Plessner’s foundation of Philosophical Anthropology. While Horkheimer’s and Plessner’s paradigms are mutually incompatible, Adorno’s „negative dialectics“ and Plessner’s „negative anthropology“ (G. Gamm) can be seen as complementing one another. Jürgen Habermas at one point sketched a complementary relationship between his own publicly communicative theory of modern society and Plessner’s philosophy of nature and human expressivity, and though he then came to doubt this, he later reaffirmed it. Faced with the „life power“ in „high capitalism“ (Plessner), the ambitions for a public democracy in a pluralistic society have to be broadened from an argumentative focus (Habermas) to include the human condition and the expressive modes of our experience as essentially embodied persons. The article discusses some possible aspects of this complementarity under the title of a „critical anthropology“ (H. Schnädelbach). KW - negativity KW - bio-power KW - social critique KW - human condition KW - world and subject KW - human expressivity Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/dzph-2016-0041 SN - 0012-1045 SN - 2192-1482 VL - 64 SP - 553 EP - 580 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - GEN A1 - Demmerling, Christoph A1 - Krüger, Hans-Peter A1 - Habermas, Jürgen T1 - Communicative Reason Juergen Habermas, interviewed by Christoph Demmerling and Hans-Peter Krueger T2 - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie : Zweimonatsschrift der internationalen philosophischen Forschung N2 - Jurgen Habermas explicates the concept of communicative reason. He explains the key assumptions of the philosophy of language and social theory associated with this concept. Also discussed is the category of life-world and the role of the body-mind difference for the consciousness of exclusivity in our access to subjective experience. as well as the role of emotions and perceptions in the context of a theory of communicative action. The question of the redemption of the various validity claims as they are associated with the performance of speech acts is related to processes of social learning and to the role of negative experiences. Finally the interview deals with the relationship between religion and reason and the importance of religion in modern, post-secular societies. Questions about the philosophical culture of our present times are discussed at the end of the conversation. KW - Jurgen Habermas KW - communicative action KW - communicative reason KW - critical theory KW - life-world KW - religion KW - post-secular society Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/dzph-2016-0061 SN - 0012-1045 SN - 2192-1482 VL - 64 SP - 806 EP - 827 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - GEN A1 - Krüger, Hans-Peter T1 - Kritische Anthropologie? T1 - Critical Anthropology? BT - Zum Verhältnis zwischen Philosophischer Anthropologie und Kritischer Theorie BT - To the Relationship between Philosophical Anthropology and Critical Theory T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe N2 - This article compares Max Horkheimer’s and Theodor W. Adorno’s foundation of the Frankfurt Critical Theory with Helmuth Plessner’s foundation of Philosophical Anthropology. While Horkheimer’s and Plessner’s paradigms are mutually incompatible, Adorno’s „negative dialectics“ and Plessner’s „negative anthropology“ (G. Gamm) can be seen as complementing one another. Jürgen Habermas at one point sketched a complementary relationship between his own publicly communicative theory of modern society and Plessner’s philosophy of nature and human expressivity, and though he then came to doubt this, he later reaffirmed it. Faced with the „life power“ in „high capitalism“ (Plessner), the ambitions for a public democracy in a pluralistic society have to be broadened from an argumentative focus (Habermas) to include the human condition and the expressive modes of our experience as essentially embodied persons. The article discusses some possible aspects of this complementarity under the title of a „critical anthropology“ (H. Schnädelbach) T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 127 KW - negativity KW - bio-power KW - social critique KW - human condition KW - world and subject KW - human expressivity Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-398024 SN - 1866-8380 IS - 127 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Krüger, Hans-Peter A1 - Demmerling, Christoph A1 - Habermas, Jürgen T1 - Kommunikative Vernunft T1 - Communicative Reason BT - Jürgen Habermas, interviewt von Christoph Demmerling und Hans-Peter Krüger BT - Juergen Habermas, interviewed by Christoph Demmerling and Hans-Peter Krueger T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe N2 - Jürgen Habermas explicates the concept of communicative reason. He explains the key assumptions of the philosophy of language and social theory associated with this concept. Also discussed is the category of life-world and the role of the body-mind difference for the consciousness of exclusivity in our access to subjective experience. as well as the role of emotions and perceptions in the context of a theory of communicative action. The question of the redemption of the various validity claims as they are associated with the performance of speech acts is related to processes of social learning and to the role of negative experiences. Finally the interview deals with the relationship between religion and reason and the importance of religion in modern, post-secular societies. Questions about the philosophical culture of our present times are discussed at the end of the conversation. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 125 KW - Jürgen Habermas KW - communicative action KW - communicative reason KW - critical theory KW - life-world KW - religion KW - post-secular society Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-397848 SN - 1866-8380 IS - 125 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krüger, Hans-Peter T1 - Die doppelte Kritik der Philosophischen Anthropologie und die Vieldeutigkeit des theoretischen Anti-Humanismus JF - Das Leben im Menschen oder der Mensch im Leben? KW - Philosophie KW - Anthropologie KW - Anti-Humanismus KW - philosophy KW - anthropology KW - anti-humanism Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-395891 SN - 978-3-86956-382-4 SP - 31 EP - 58 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Ebke, Thomas A1 - Zanfi, Caterina A1 - Krüger, Hans-Peter A1 - Sommer, Christian A1 - Viennet, Thomas A1 - Johannßen, Dennis A1 - Balzaretti, Ugo A1 - Toussaint Ondoua, Hervé A1 - Agard, Olivier A1 - Henckmann, Wolfhart A1 - Simonotti, Edoardo A1 - Hand, Annika A1 - Tavakkoli, Amirpasha A1 - Hackbarth, Daniel A1 - Edinger, Sebastian A1 - Schollmeyer, Justus A1 - von Kalckreuth, Moritz Alexander A1 - Schmieg, Gregor A1 - Batista Rates, Bruno A1 - Kressmann, Philipp A1 - Hilt, Annette A1 - van Buuren, Jasper A1 - Keusch, Juliane A1 - Guzun, Mădălina A1 - Bruff, Kyla A1 - Stahl, Marion A1 - Held, Lukas ED - Ebke, Thomas ED - Zanfi, Caterina T1 - Das Leben im Menschen oder der Mensch im Leben? T1 - La vie dans l’homme ou l’homme dans la vie? BT - Deutsch-Französische Genealogien zwischen Anthropologie und Anti-Humanismus BT - Généalogies franco-allemandes entre anthropologie et anti-humanisme N2 - In der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts wird deutlich, dass es in Frankreich und in Deutschland voneinander abweichende Sichtweisen auf die Frage gibt, ob der Mensch eine "Sonderstellung" in der Dynamik des biologischen und geschichtlichen Lebens genießt. Während sich in Deutschland die Tradition eines anthropologischen Denkens neu formiert, ist in Frankreich eine scharfe Skepsis gegenüber dem Erbe des Humanismus charakteristisch. Die Beiträge dieses zweisprachigen Buches untersuchen diese deutsch-französische Konstellation von Fragen und Autoren, und aktualisieren die Reflexion auf die (Grenzen der) Singularität des Menschen. N2 - Dans la philosophie du 20e siècle, s'expriment en France et en Allemagne de fortes divergences quant à la question de savoir si l’homme jouit d’une «situation particulière» dans la dynamique de la vie biologique et historique. Alors qu’en Allemagne se renouvelle la tradition d’une pensée anthropologique, un fort scepticisme envers l'héritage humaniste caractérise la pensée française. Les contributions de ce livre bilingue examinent cette constellation de questions et d'auteurs franco-allemands et actualisent la réflexion autour (des limites) de la singularité de l'homme. Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-95409 SN - 978-3-86956-382-4 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Krüger, Hans-Peter T1 - Grenzen aus Sicht der Philosophischen Anthropologie Helmuth Plessners T2 - Grenzen im Fokus der Wissenschaften Y1 - 2016 SP - 101 EP - 120 PB - Trafo CY - Berlin ER -