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Life Configurations / ed. by Gert Melville, Carlos Ruta.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Challenges of Life: Essays on philosophical and cultural anthropologyPublisher: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110338690
  • 9783110395709
  • 9783110338737
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 128 22/ger
LOC classification:
  • HQ799.95 .L53 2014
  • BF121
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface to the series “Challenges of Life” -- Life Configurations -- Contents -- Philosophical Foundations -- Contributions for considering the possibility of all life configurations -- “Philosophical Anthropology” as an Interpretation of Human Life Forms -- Life and Language -- Historical Perspectives -- Carpe diem: Time and Life Configuration in the Hellenistic Roman World -- Life Configurations in the Middle Ages between Divine Acting and Human Self-Determination -- Foreseeing the Future Under a Communist Regime -- Cultural Identities -- Explaining the Vicissitudes of Human Life: The Indian View -- Life Configurations: Perceived Patternings in Pre-modern China -- The Muslim Conduct of Life: Paths of Continuity -- Sorcery comes from nearby Problems of the human condition according to some Amazonian indigenous peoples -- Returning to the Land, Evoking the Past, and Sowing the Future Guaraní and Tapiete Indians and the Formation of New Rural Communities in Northwestern Argentina -- Life as Quotidian Acts of Justice in Northern Mozambique -- Politics – Economics – Ethics -- Configurations of (Political) Life -- The Politics of Survival -- What’s Alive for Economics? -- Can Ethics Shape Modern Societies? -- Art and Literature -- Why Do We Need Masterpieces? -- Elpenor, the Emmaus Pilgrim and the Missing One The Painting and the Historical Problem of Life Configuration -- The Rise and Fall of Objects and Their Relationship with Man -- Musil’s Reconfiguring of Austria’s (reluctant) Entry into Modernity -- About the Authors
Summary: Life Configurations focuses on the analysis and reflection on the various forms in which human beings imagine, design, conjecture, and plan their “becoming”, that is to say their lives. Case studies written by an interdisciplinary circle of well-known academics explore how the capacity of designing life, the concept of free will, and the methods to calculate the future have been changed and adopted in different societies and in different ages.
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Frontmatter -- Preface to the series “Challenges of Life” -- Life Configurations -- Contents -- Philosophical Foundations -- Contributions for considering the possibility of all life configurations -- “Philosophical Anthropology” as an Interpretation of Human Life Forms -- Life and Language -- Historical Perspectives -- Carpe diem: Time and Life Configuration in the Hellenistic Roman World -- Life Configurations in the Middle Ages between Divine Acting and Human Self-Determination -- Foreseeing the Future Under a Communist Regime -- Cultural Identities -- Explaining the Vicissitudes of Human Life: The Indian View -- Life Configurations: Perceived Patternings in Pre-modern China -- The Muslim Conduct of Life: Paths of Continuity -- Sorcery comes from nearby Problems of the human condition according to some Amazonian indigenous peoples -- Returning to the Land, Evoking the Past, and Sowing the Future Guaraní and Tapiete Indians and the Formation of New Rural Communities in Northwestern Argentina -- Life as Quotidian Acts of Justice in Northern Mozambique -- Politics – Economics – Ethics -- Configurations of (Political) Life -- The Politics of Survival -- What’s Alive for Economics? -- Can Ethics Shape Modern Societies? -- Art and Literature -- Why Do We Need Masterpieces? -- Elpenor, the Emmaus Pilgrim and the Missing One The Painting and the Historical Problem of Life Configuration -- The Rise and Fall of Objects and Their Relationship with Man -- Musil’s Reconfiguring of Austria’s (reluctant) Entry into Modernity -- About the Authors

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Life Configurations focuses on the analysis and reflection on the various forms in which human beings imagine, design, conjecture, and plan their “becoming”, that is to say their lives. Case studies written by an interdisciplinary circle of well-known academics explore how the capacity of designing life, the concept of free will, and the methods to calculate the future have been changed and adopted in different societies and in different ages.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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