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Internationale Helmuth Plessner Kongress (4th : 2009 : Rotterdam, Netherlands)
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The work of the German philosopher Helmuth Plessner (1892-1985) inspired generations of scholars and has been enjoying a recent renaissance. This volume offers the first substantial English-language introduction to Plessner's philosophical anthropology, contextualising it by comparison with the more familiar contemporaries such as Bergson, Cassirer and Merleau-Ponty, but also showing his relevance to contemporary discussion in a variety of scholarly fields.

Title Plessner's philosophical anthropology : perspectives and prospects / edited by Jos de Mul.
Contributors Mul, Jos de, 1956- (editor)
Publisher Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press
Creation Date [2014]
Notes A selection of the papers presented at the IVth International Plessner Conference, held at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"Appendix: Plessner's Collected Writings" -- pages 477-480.
Content Anthropology -- Culture -- Technology.
Extent 498 pages
25 cm.
Language English
Copyright Date ©2014
National Library system number 990038139260205171

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