Life Configurations

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Life Configurations

Edited by: Gert Melville and Carlos Ruta

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2014

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Challenges of Life: Essays on philosophical and cultural anthropology

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Life Configurations focuses on the analysis and reflection on the various forms in which human beings imagine, design, conjecture, and plan their ‍“becoming”, that is to say their lives. Case studies written by an interdisciplinary circle of well-known academics explore how the capacity of designing life, the concept of free will, and the methods to calculate the future have been changed and adopted in different societies and in different ages.

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Gert Melville, TU Dresden, and Carlos Ruta, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface to the series “Challenges of Life” Gert Melville Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	V
Life Configurations Carlos Rafael Ruta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Philosophical Foundations
Contributions for considering the possibility of all life configurations Carlos Rafael Ruta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
“Philosophical Anthropology” as an Interpretation of Human Life Forms Karl-Siegbert Rehberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	25
Life and Language Edgardo Castro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	46
Historical Perspectives
Carpe diem: Time and Life Configuration in the Hellenistic Roman World Gregor Vogt-Spira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	57
Life Configurations in the Middle Ages between Divine Acting and Human Self-Determination Gert Melville Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	67
Foreseeing the Future Under a Communist Regime Claudio Ingerflom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	81
Cultural Identities
Explaining the Vicissitudes of Human Life: The Indian View Gaya Charan Tripathi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	95
Life Configurations: Perceived Patternings in Pre-modern China John Timothy Wixted Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	107
The Muslim Conduct of Life: Paths of Continuity Tilman Nagel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	120
Sorcery comes from nearby Problems of the human condition according to some Amazonian indigenous peoples Marina Vanzolini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	130
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 Silvia María Hirsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	138
Life as Quotidian Acts of Justice in Northern Mozambique Juan Obarrio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	147
Politics – Economics – Ethics
Configurations of (Political) Life Sandro Chignola Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	165
The Politics of Survival Marc Abélès Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	186
What’s Alive for Economics? Marie Cuillerai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	195
Can Ethics Shape Modern Societies? Friedrich Wilhelm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	204
Art and Literature
Why Do We Need Masterpieces? Ricardo Ibarlucía Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	213
Elpenor, the Emmaus Pilgrim and the Missing One The Painting and the Historical Problem of Life Configuration José Emilio Burucúa and Nicolás Kwiatkowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	233
The Rise and Fall of Objects and Their Relationship with Man Mario Trimarchi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	244
Musil’s Reconfiguring of Austria’s (reluctant) Entry into Modernity Kathrin H. Rosenfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	251
About the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	266

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eBook published on:

September 11, 2014

eBook ISBN:

9783110338737

Hardcover published on:

August 19, 2014

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110338690

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Front matter:

12

Main content:

268

Illustrations:

30

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110338737

eBook ISBN: 9783110338737

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110338690

Keywords for this book

Kulturanthropologie; Grundfragen menschlicher Existenz

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Historians, cultural anthropologists, theologians

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