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by Helmuth Plessner; Millay Hyatt (Translator); Introduction by J. M. Bernstein


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  • Title Levels of Organic Life and the Human: An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology
  • Author Helmuth Plessner; Millay Hyatt (Translator); Introduction by J. M. Bernstein
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Fordham University Press
  • Date 2019-07-02
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780823283996 / 0823283992
  • Weight 1.75 lbs (0.79 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.13 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.87 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Biology - Philosophy
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019937395
  • Dewey Decimal Code 570.1

About the author

Helmuth Plessner (Author)
Helmuth Plessner (1892-1985) was a German philosopher and sociologist. From 1953-59, he was president of the German Sociological Association. Three of his many books have appeared in English, Political Anthropology (Northwestern, 2018), The Limits of Community (Humanity Books, 1999) and Laughing and Crying (Northwestern, 1970).

J. M. Bernstein (Introducer)
J. M. Bernstein is University Distinguished Professor in Philosophy at The New School for Social Research in New York City.

Millay Hyatt (Translator)
Millay Hyatt is a writer and translator based in Berlin. Her dissertation, "No-Where and Now-Here: Utopia and Politics from Hegel to Deleuze," received the University of Southern California's doctoral research prize.

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Hardback. New. The most important work by a key figure in German thought, Helmuth Plessner's Levels of Organic Life and the Human, originally published in 1928, appears here for the first time in English, accompanied by a substantial Introduction by J. M. Bernstein, after having served for decades as an influence on thinkers as diverse as Merleau-Ponty, Peter Berger, Habermas, and the new naturalists. The Levels, as it has long been known, draws on phenomenological, biological, and social scientific sources as part of a systematic account of nature, life, and human existence. The book considers non-living nature, plants, non-human animals, and human beings in turn as a sequence of increasingly complex modes of boundary dynamics-simply put, interactions between a thing's insides and surrounding world. On Plessner's unique account, living things are classed and analyzed by their "positionality," or orientation to and within an environment. "Life" is… Read More
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