Becoming human romantic anthropology and the embodiment of freedom

Pt. 1. The historical problem -- Proto-anthropology and the discovery of reflexivity -- Pt. 2. A provisional (Kantian) solution -- Cultivating freedom : Kant's affective ethics -- Freedom, between nature and reason : Kant's pragmatic anthropology -- Testing the human : Kant and Forster on...

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1. Verfasser: Wellmon, Chad (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: University Park, Penn. Pennsylvania State Univ. Press c 2010
Schriftenreihe:Literature and philosophy
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Zusammenfassung:Pt. 1. The historical problem -- Proto-anthropology and the discovery of reflexivity -- Pt. 2. A provisional (Kantian) solution -- Cultivating freedom : Kant's affective ethics -- Freedom, between nature and reason : Kant's pragmatic anthropology -- Testing the human : Kant and Forster on the differences of race and the possibilities of culture -- Pt. 3. -- Three responses to Kant -- Poesie as anthropology : Schleiermacher, colonial history, and the ethics of ethnography -- Lyrical feeling : Novalis's anthropology of the senses -- The body of language : Goethe, Humboldt and the "lively gaze".
"Examines the crisis of a late eighteenth-century anthropology as it relates to the emergence of a modern consciousness that sees itself as condemned to draw its norms and very self-understanding from itself"--Provided by publisher
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references p. [307] - 321 and index
Beschreibung:VIII, 326 S.
ISBN:9780271037349
978-0-271-03734-9