Challenges of Life: Essays on philosophical and cultural anthropology
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Herausgegeben von:
Gert Melville
How have different civilizations throughout different epochs mastered fundamental challenges of life? The series analyses the basic questions of cultural anthropology. All epochs and the most significant civilizations worldwide, as well as different epistemological aspects including historical sciences, sociology, ethnology, art, literature and philosophy are brought together.
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.
Die Natur als Basis des menschlichen Lebens stellt sich sowohl als Ressource als auch als Bedrohung dar. Die Herausforderung des Menschen ist, die Natur zu zähmen, sie verfügbar zu machen und verstehen. Dies kann durch die Leistung des Kulturellen, des Wissenschaftlichen und des technisch Praktischen geschehen, aber auch durch ihre Erschließung ihres Sinnes durch Religion, Philosophie und Magie. Der Band widmet sich diesen Aspekten quer über die Epochen und die großen Kulturregionen hinweg.
Experiencing the dimension that lies beyond our empirical grasp of the world has always been a challenge for human beings, for it can expose the limitations of our agency. Such experience, while potentially terrifying, can also furnish a basis for religious faith or hope of a better future. The intercultural essays in this volume analyze ways of dealing with the beyond, including magic, religion, myth, and all-promising utopias.
The central question of the book is as follows: To what extent does the community present a challenge in the life of the individual? Well-known international Philosophers, historians, anthropologists, political scientists, theologians and sociologists attempted to find explications by intercultural comparison.
