Essay review of Helmuth Plessner, Levels of Organic Life and the Human: an Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology, New York: Fordham University Press, 2019
The English translation of Helmuth Plessner’s (1892–1985) volume Levels of the Organic Life and the Human. An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology (1928; henceforth: LO) finally fills in a long-lamented gap. An English translation already existed of other important essays by Plessner, such as Laughing and Crying: A Study of the Limits of Human Behaviour (1941; Eng. 1970); The Limits of Community. A Critique of Social Radicalism (1924; Eng. 1999); and more recently (in 2018) of Political Anthropology (originally published in 1931 as Macht und menschliche Natur), but not of this text, which is undoubtedly his masterpiece, besides being a great classic of 1920s German Philosophical Anthropology.
@article{doi:10.17170/kobra-202105263974,
author ={Michelini, Francesca},
title ={Neither vitalist nor mechanist, neither dualist nor idealist: Plessner's third way},
keywords ={100 and Plessner, Helmuth. Die Stufen des Organischen und der Mensch and Übersetzung and Philosophische Anthropologie},
copyright ={http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
language ={en},
journal ={History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences},
year ={2021-05-21}
}