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  - 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  -