Negative Anthropology
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This handbook chapter examines Critical Theory's early engagements with humanism and philosophical anthropology. Although the critics and philosophers associated with the first generation of the Frankfurt School rejected the concept of an... more
Hannah Arendt and Hans Blumenberg are usually only considered as intellectual opponents on the topic of secularization. This article shows that despite obvious differences, not least on Arendt’s interpretation of Eichmann, a much more... more
2nd proofs, published in: H. Bajohr/S. Edinger (Hrsg.), Negative Anthropologie: Ideengeschichte und Systematik einer unausgeschöpften Denkfigur, Berlin: De Gruyter (2022), pp. 65-102.
Онтологическо-темпоральный дуализм, развиваемый Кожевом в оппозиции онтологии Гегеля и «антропологии» Хайдеггера, сопровождается разделением людей на «не-философов», «философов» и «мудрецов». Отличие между ними состоит в разных... more
Bevor Ulrich Sonnemann 1968 seine "Negative Anthropologie" veröffentlichte, wurde diese Wendung bereits mehrmals und in verschiedenen Sprachen erfunden. Dieser Beitrag versucht sich nicht an einer Begriffsgeschichte, die die Sache auch... more
„Negative Anthropologie ist die bestimmte Negation aller Möglichkeit widerspruchsfrei positiver.“ Diese kurze, aber deswegen nicht minder erläuterungsbedürftige Definition Negativer Anthropologie gibt Ulrich Sonnemann in seinem... more
In the preface of the Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), Adorno and Horkheimer mention the term "dialectical anthropology," a concept they did not fully elaborate in this passage. To find out more about this quite unresearched term this... more
Review of Günther Anders, Die Weltfremdheit des Menschen, ed. Christian Dries (Munich: Beck, 2018). Forthcoming in Thesis 11.
Slightly abridged English version of my essay "Keine Quallen: Anthropozän und negative Anthropologie" (also on academia).
Adorno (1903-1969) torna in questi anni di attualità per la sua indagine sull'uomo e sulla natura della sua esperienza esistenziale. Questione che, pur oscurata dall'attuale omologazione dei linguaggi, sembra tenacemente riaffiorare. Il... more
In the current humanities, the status of "the human" is contested as never before. While posthumanism is based on the epistemological skepticism about and the ethical aversion to defining “the human,” research in the wake of the... more
> Gurong Yang, Die geteilte Schönheit von Natur und Mensch: Der doppelte Horizont der „Sicht des Menschen“ und der „Sicht der Natur“ (The Shared Beauty of Nature and Human Being: The Twofold Horizon of „The Perspective of Human Being“ and... more
I first comment on the tense personal relationship between Arendt and Blumenberg, their disagreements on secularization and the Eichmann trial. In a second part, I show how their theoretical stances converge in a 'negative anthropology.'... more