Embodiment in Evolution and Culture

ISBN-13: 9783161547362 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 383 str.

Gregor Etzelmuller; Christian Tewes

Opis

From its beginnings, the theory of evolution has unsettled fundamental anthropological assumptions about the place of human beings in nature. The integration of human origins into natural history by Darwinism was countered by the philosophical anthropologies of the 20th century. Their attempts were to hold on to the special status of humans as beings open towards the world'. Today, evolutionary and philosophical anthropology have moved closer together via the paradigm of embodiment. Building on embodied cognitive science, this volume aims to establish how far the human mind and human cultural cognition can be attributed to the structures of human existence, structures which have emerged in the course of evolution and have in turn been affected by culture. Contributors: Terrence Deacon, Marie-Eve Engels, Gregor Etzelmuller, Thomas Fuchs, Shaun Gallagher, Duilio Garofoli, Miriam Haidle, Matthias Jung, Lambros Malafouris, Alexander Massmann, Erik Myin, Tailer G. Ransom, Christian Spahn, Magnus Schlette, Mog Stapleton, Christian Tewes, Annette Weissenrieder, Wolfgang Welsch, Christoph Wulf, Karim Zahidi, Jordan Zlatev

O autorze

Geboren 1971; war Principal Investigator des Heidelberger Marsilius-Projektes »Verkörperung als Paradigma einer evolutionären Kulturanthropologie« und ist seit 2016 Professor für Systematische Theologie an der Universität Osnabrück sowie gegenwärtig Sprecher des Graduiertenkollegs »Religiöse Differenzen gestalten. Pluralismusbildung in Christentum und Islam«. Born 1972; adjunct Professor (Privatdozent) for Philosophy at the University of Jena and Principal Investigator of the Heidelberg Marsilius Project "Embodiment as Paradigm for an Evolutionary Cultural Anthropology".