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Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface to the series “Challenges of Life” V
3. Life Configurations VII
4. Contents IX
5. Philosophical Foundations
6. Contributions for considering the possibility of all life configurations 3
7. “Philosophical Anthropology” as an Interpretation of Human Life Forms 25
8. Life and Language 46
9. Historical Perspectives
10. Carpe diem: Time and Life Configuration in the Hellenistic Roman World 57
11. Life Configurations in the Middle Ages between Divine Acting and Human Self-Determination 67
12. Foreseeing the Future Under a Communist Regime 81
13. Cultural Identities
14. Explaining the Vicissitudes of Human Life: The Indian View 95
15. Life Configurations: Perceived Patternings in Pre-modern China 107
16. The Muslim Conduct of Life: Paths of Continuity 120
17. Sorcery comes from nearby Problems of the human condition according to some Amazonian indigenous peoples 130
18. Returning to the Land, Evoking the Past, and Sowing the Future Guaraní and Tapiete Indians and the Formation of New Rural Communities in Northwestern Argentina 138
19. Life as Quotidian Acts of Justice in Northern Mozambique 147
20. Politics – Economics – Ethics
21. Configurations of (Political) Life 165
22. The Politics of Survival 186
23. What’s Alive for Economics? 195
24. Can Ethics Shape Modern Societies? 204
25. Art and Literature
26. Why Do We Need Masterpieces? 213
27. Elpenor, the Emmaus Pilgrim and the Missing One The Painting and the Historical Problem of Life Configuration 233
28. The Rise and Fall of Objects and Their Relationship with Man 244
29. Musil’s Reconfiguring of Austria’s (reluctant) Entry into Modernity 251
30. About the Authors 266