Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Foreword 9
4. Artificial by Nature 11
5. Part I Anthropology
6. 1 Philosophical Anthropology 41
7. 2 The Nascence of Modern Man 57
8. 3 “True” and “False” Evolutionism 79
9. 4 Life, Concept and Subject 99
10. 5 Bodily Experience and Experiencing One’s Body 111
11. 6 Plessner and the Mathematical- Physical Perspective 129
12. 7 The Body Exploited 149
13. 8 Plessner’s Theory of Eccentricity 163
14. 9 The Duty of Personal Identity 177
15. Part II Culture
16. 10 Anthropology as a Foundation of Cultural Philosophy 195
17. 11 Bi-Directional Boundaries 211
18. 12 The Unbearable Freedom of Dwelling 229
19. 13 Eccentric Positionality and Urban Space 243
20. 14 Strangely Familiar 261
21. 15 De-Masking as a Characteristic of Social Work? 275
22. 16 Helmuth Plessner as a Social Theorist 289
23. 17 Habermas’s New Turn towards Plessner’s Philosophical Anthropology 301
24. Part III Technology
25. 18 The Quest for the Sources of the Self, Seen from the Vantage Point of Plessner’s Material a Priori 317
26. 19 The Brain in the Vat as the Epistemic Object of Neurobiology 335
27. 20 Switching “On,” Switching “Off” 357
28. 21 On Humor and “Laughing” Rats 375
29. 22 A Moral Bubble 387
30. 23 Eccentric Positionality as a Precondition for the Criminal Liability Of Artificial Life Forms 407
31. 24 Not Terminated 425
32. 25 Plessner and Technology 443
33. 26 Philosophical Anthropology 2.0 457
34. Appendix. Plessner’s Collected Writings (Gesammelte Schriften) 477
35. About the Authors 481
36. Name Index 489
37. Subject Index 495