Becoming human : romantic anthropology and the embodiment of freedom / Chad Wellmon.

• Pt. 1. The historical problem. Proto-anthropology and the discovery of reflexivity -- Pt. 2. A provisional (Kantian) solution. Cultivating freedom : Kant's affective ethics ; Freedom, between nature and reason : Kant's pragmatic anthropology ; Testing the human : Kant and Forster on the differences of race and the possibilities of culture -- Pt. 3. Three responses to Kant. Poesie as anthropology : Schleiermacher, colonial history, and the ethics of ethnography ; Lyrical feeling : Novalis's anthropology of the senses ; The body of language : Goethe, Humboldt, and the "lively gaze.". 

• "Examines the crisis of a late eighteenth-century anthropology as it relates to the emergence of a modern consciousness that sees itself as condemned to draw its norms and very self-understanding from itself"--Provided by publisher. 

Ämnesord

Civilization, Modern.  (LCSH)

Human beings.  (LCSH)

Philosophical anthropology  -- History. (LCSH)

Liberty  -- Philosophy. (LCSH)

Filosofisk antropologi  -- historia -- Tyskland -- 1700-talet (sao)

Klassifikation

BD450 (LCC)

128 (DDC)

Dh (kssb/8 (machine generated))