Becoming human
Subtitle: romantic anthropology and the embodiment of freedom
By: Chad Wellmon
Series: Literature and philosophy; Literature and philosophy
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780271037349
Subjects: Philosophical anthropology; Modern Civilization; Human beings; Philosophy; Liberty; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-321) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. The historical problem. Proto-anthropology and the discovery of reflexivity; title: 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; title: 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."