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PhD study topics for the academic year 2022/2023
Performativity in philosophical-anthropological discourseAnnotation:In Helmuth Plessner's anthropology of the actor role we can find methodological and thematic sources for the investigation of performativity, which are based on his concept of the so-called excentric positionality and the three anthropological principles (natural artificiality, mediated immediacy and utopian standpoint). On this basis, questions of corporeality and expressivity, how one takes roles (incarnates in roles) in both personal and public space, can be examined more closely. Further impulses for the elaboration of this theme are to be found in Plessner's social-philosophical and art-scientific analyses, as well as in other analyses in the field of philosophical anthropology. |
Possibilities of phenomenology in anthropologyAnnotation:The possibilities of connection between phenomenology and philosophical anthropology are both historical-philosophical (Scheler and Plessner belonged to the circle of Husserl's disciples) and thematic (arising from the phenomenology of corporeality, perception, intersubjectivity, etc.). This implies the possibility of elaborating on this theme by tracing the productive intersections of phenomenological analysis on the one hand and raising anthropological questions on the other. This can be used more closely in the investigation of such phenomena as illness and health, care for the self, corporeality, expressivity, being in the world and with other people. This exploration also offers the possibility for interdisciplinary collaboration between philosophy and related disciplines focusing on issues of culture, sociality or historicity. |