Debating Humanity : Towards a Philosophical Sociology /

Debating Humanity : Towards a Philosophical Sociology /

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Author / Creator:	Chernilo, Daniel, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2016. Berlin : Knowledge Unlatched, ©2016.
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 262 pages) : illustrations, charts, figures, tables
Language:	English
Series:	BiblioLabs, LLC. Books.
Subject:	umanism. Human beings. Philosophical anthropology. Human beings. Philosophical anthropology. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13525248

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Varying Form of Title:	Debating Humanity, Towards a Philosophical Sociology
ISBN:	9781107129337 1107129338 9781316416303 1316416305
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-254) and index. Knowledge Unlatched 100739 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection In English.
Summary:	The question 'what is a human being?' remains one of the most vexing intellectual tasks. Debating Humanity reconstructs how contemporary sociologists and philosophers? among others, Arendt, Taylor, Archer and Boltanski? understand the key anthropological skills that define our shared membership to the human species.
Other form:	Print version: Debating Humanity, Towards a Philosophical Sociology. Cambridge/New York : Cambridge University Press c2016 9781107129337

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Summary:	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. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (vii, 262 pages) : illustrations, charts, figures, tables
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-254) and index.
ISBN:	9781107129337 1107129338 9781316416303 1316416305