Zwischen Empirisierung und Konstruktionsleistung: Anthropologie im 18. Jahrhundert (Hallesche Beitrge zur Europischen Aufklrung, 24) (German Edition)

ISBN: 3484810246

Author: Garber, J

Condition: New

Research on the subject to date has largely interpreted the paradigmatic shift in late-Enlightenment anthropology (approx. 1750-1800) as a unified process, and has discussed the various fields of study in isolation. The present volume takes a different course. It insists on the close connection between constructivist and subject-related logic in anthropology, and interprets it in terms of a process of increasing differentiation within the contest between the rival views of man as a physical and moral animal. The various articles discuss the following topics and/or interpretive procedures: the relationship between soma and pneuma the self-generation of man in the process of natural history anthropology and the genesis of civilization empiricism as an anthropological form of epistemology anthropology and utopia fictional anthropology as an epistemological approach philosophy, science, and myth.