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Social action and human nature / Axel Honneth and Hans Joas ; translated by Raymond Meyer. - Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988. - ix, 191 p. ; 22 cm.

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Anthropology and historical materialism: Ludwig Feuerbach's anthropological materialism -- Marx's critique of Feuerbach -- Positions in the Marxist discussion of anthropology -- Anthropological foundations of social action: Preliminary remarks on the German tradition of 'philosophical anthropology' -- Philosophical anthropology as a theory of action: Arnold Gehlen's attempt to construct a systematic anthropology -- Action and intersubjectivity: the difference between Mead and Gehlen -- Human expressiveness: Helmuth Plessner's anthropological hermeneutics -- Instinct and need: Agnes Heller's social anthropology -- Human perception as sensuous cognition: the critical psychology of Klaus Holzkamp -- Historical anthropology: Control of affect and the weaving of the social fabric: Norbert Elias's theory of the civilising process -- The disciplining of the body and decentralised power: Michel Foucault's structuralist analysis of history -- Moral evolution and domination of nature: J©ơrgen Habermas's theory of socio-cultural evolution. 1. 2. 3.

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Philosophical anthropology.
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