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Record Nr.

UNINA9910213852403321

Autore

Chernilo Daniel

Titolo

Debating humanity : towards a philosophical sociology / / Daniel Chernilo [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, UK, : Cambridge University Press, 2016

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2017

ISBN

9781316416303

9781316996027

9781107129337

1107129338

9781107569867

1107569869

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 262 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

128

Soggetti

Humanism

Human beings

Philosophical anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Jun 2019).

Open Access title.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Debating Humanity explores sociological and philosophical efforts to delineate key features of humanity that identify us as members of the human species. After challenging the normative contradictions of contemporary posthumanism, this book goes back to the foundational debate on humanism between Jean-Paul Sartre and Martin Heidegger in the 1940s and then re-assesses the implicit and explicit anthropological arguments put forward by seven leading postwar theorists: self-transcendence (Hannah Arendt), adaptation (Talcott Parsons), responsibility (Hans Jonas), language (Jürgen Habermas), strong evaluations (Charles Taylor), reflexivity (Margaret Archer) and reproduction of life (Luc Boltanski). Genuinely interdisciplinary and boldly argued, Daniel Chernilo has crafted a novel philosophical



sociology that defends a universalistic principle of humanity as vital to any adequate understanding of social life.