Modern and Postmodern Crises of Symbolic Structures : Essays in Philosophical Anthropology.

Intro -- Modern and Postmodern Crises of Symbolic Structures: Essays in Philosophical Anthropology -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 How to Reform Humanism in the Post-human Era? -- 2 The Struggles of the Individual in a Nihilistic Age: Kierkegaard's and Jünger's Critiques of Modernity -- 3 The Intertwining of Phenomenology and Philosophical Anthropology: From Husserl to Plessner -- 4 Under Interpellation: Phenomenology, Anthropology and Politics -- 5 Feuerbach's Conception of Theology or Philosophy of Religion as Anthropology -- 6 The Transformative Power of Art in "Richard Wagner in Bayreuth -- 7 The "Distraction" of Contemporary Art according to Yves Michaud -- 8 Czechoslovakia after 1989 through Arendt's Eyes: From Pariahs to Strong Men -- 9 Notes on Phenomenology and Revolution -- 10 Performing the University -- Index of Persons -- Index of Subjects.

In this volume, the contributions view the human being primarily as animal symbolicum who creates, interprets and is affected by symbolic structures. The book examines modern and postmodern crises of symbolic structures, which are processes of transformation that also provide new opportunities.

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