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This volume is the result of a research project entitled
"Evolutionary Continuity - Human Specifics - The Possibility of
Objective Knowledge" that was carried out by representatives of six
academic disciplines (evolutionary biology, evolutionary
anthropology, brain research, cognitive neuroscience, cognitive
psychology and philosophy) over a period of three and a half years.
The starting point for the project was the newly emerging riddle of
human uniqueness: though the uniqueness of human beings is
undisputable, all explanations for this fact have successively been
discarded or refuted in recent decades. There is no special factor
that could explain the particularities of human existence. Rather,
all human skills derive from a continuous relation to pre-human
skills, that is to say, to elements that were developed earlier in
the phylogeny and were later inherited. But starting from abilities
that are anything but special, how could the particularity of human
beings have evolved? This was the guiding question of the project.
In this work we try to answer it by addressing the following
problems: How strong is evolutionary continuity in human beings?
How can we understand that it gave way to cultural discontinuity?
Which aspect of cultural existence is really unique to humans? Can
the possibility of objective knowledge be seen as a (admittedly
extreme) case in point? - The answers are meant to help clarify the
central issue of contemporary scientific anthropology.
`The aestheticization of everyday life' has become a commonplace
term, one which often merely scratches the surface of contemporary
culture. This study illuminates the deeper dynamics of aesthetic
reality from a philosophical perspective. Wolfgang Welsch, author
of the influential Aesthetic Thinking, develops an important
analysis of contemporary culture with philosophical bite. He
examines global aestheticization phenomena, probes the relationship
of aesthetics and ethics, and considers the broad relevance of
aesthetics for contemporary thinking. He argues that modes of
thought familiar from the aesthetic realm comprise fundamental
paradigms for understanding today's reality. The implications for
specific and everyday issues are demonstrated in studies of
architecture, advertising, the Internet and our perception of the
life world.
This volume is the result of a research project entitled
"Evolutionary Continuity - Human Specifics - The Possibility of
Objective Knowledge" that was carried out by representatives of six
academic disciplines (evolutionary biology, evolutionary
anthropology, brain research, cognitive neuroscience, cognitive
psychology and philosophy) over a period of three and a half years.
The starting point for the project was the newly emerging riddle of
human uniqueness: though the uniqueness of human beings is
undisputable, all explanations for this fact have successively been
discarded or refuted in recent decades. There is no special factor
that could explain the particularities of human existence. Rather,
all human skills derive from a continuous relation to pre-human
skills, that is to say, to elements that were developed earlier in
the phylogeny and were later inherited. But starting from abilities
that are anything but special, how could the particularity of human
beings have evolved? This was the guiding question of the project.
In this work we try to answer it by addressing the following
problems: How strong is evolutionary continuity in human beings?
How can we understand that it gave way to cultural discontinuity?
Which aspect of cultural existence is really unique to humans? Can
the possibility of objective knowledge be seen as a (admittedly
extreme) case in point? - The answers are meant to help clarify the
central issue of contemporary scientific anthropology.
Fast 25 Jahre nach seinem Bestseller Unsere postmoderne Moderne
legt Wolfgang Welsch eine neuartige und tiefer gehende
Infragestellung der Moderne vor. Als zentral fur die Moderne sieht
er das anthropische Prinzip an: In allem ist vom Menschen
auszugehen, alles ist auf den Menschen zu beziehen; der Mensch ist
das Mass der Welt, die Welt ist Menschenwelt und nichts sonst,
nichts daruber hinaus. Dem stellt er kritisch eine Reihe von
Phanomenanalysen und die Skizze einer Anthropologie auf
evolutionarer Grundlage entgegen. Indem nicht die Welt vom Menschen
her, sondern zuerst einmal der Mensch von der Welt her zu begreifen
ist, ist den anthropischen Spiegelspielen der Moderne der Boden
entzogen, und eine neue Denklandschaft zeichnet sich ab."
Das kunstlerische Werk ist eine der greifbarsten Manifestationen
der menschlichen Seele und mag auch Aufschluss geben uber die
Prozesse, durch die psychische Phanomene zustande kommen. Daher
braucht die Psychiatrie die (moderne) Kunst, um psychisches
Geschehen differenzierter erkennen zu koennen. Der Dialog zwischen
Kunst und Psychiatrie dauert schon langer an, wobei der
entscheidende Impuls sicher von Prinzhorn (1922) mit seiner
"Bildnerei der Geisteskranken" kam. Das vorliegende Buch ist
bewusst interdisziplinar aufgebaut, um das Verhaltnis von Kunst und
Psychiatrie aus moeglichst verschiedenen Blickwinkeln zu
beleuchten.
`The aestheticization of everyday life' has become a commonplace
term, one which often merely scratches the surface of contemporary
culture. This study illuminates the deeper dynamics of aesthetic
reality from a philosophical perspective. Wolfgang Welsch, author
of the influential Aesthetic Thinking, develops an important
analysis of contemporary culture with philosophical bite. He
examines global aestheticization phenomena, probes the relationship
of aesthetics and ethics, and considers the broad relevance of
aesthetics for contemporary thinking. He argues that modes of
thought familiar from the aesthetic realm comprise fundamental
paradigms for understanding today's reality. The implications for
specific and everyday issues are demonstrated in studies of
architecture, advertising, the Internet and our perception of the
life world.
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