Kritische Anthropologie?
Critical Anthropology?
- 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)
Author details: | Hans-Peter KrügerORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-398024 |
ISSN: | 1866-8380 |
Title of parent work (German): | Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe |
Subtitle (German): | Zum Verhältnis zwischen Philosophischer Anthropologie und Kritischer Theorie |
Subtitle (English): | To the Relationship between Philosophical Anthropology and Critical Theory |
Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe (127) |
Publication type: | Postprint |
Language: | German |
Date of first publication: | 2017/07/27 |
Publication year: | 2016 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2017/07/27 |
Tag: | bio-power; human condition; human expressivity; negativity; social critique; world and subject |
Issue: | 127 |
Number of pages: | 28 |
Source: | Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 64 (2016) 4, S. 553-580. DOI 10.1515/dzph-2016-0041 |
Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Philosophie |
DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 10 Philosophie / 100 Philosophie und Psychologie |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access |
Grantor: | Walter de Gruyter Online Zeitschriften |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |