Honneth, Axel, 1949-
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.
include bibliography ,index Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 180-188.
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.
ISBN: 0521326834 9780521326834 0521339359 (pbk.) 9780521339353 (pbk.)
LCCN: 88011913
Nat. Bib. No.: GB88-38175
Subjects--Topical Terms: Anthropology--Philosophy--History. Philosophical anthropology. Social history. Social action.
LC Class. No.: GN33 / .H6513 1988
Dewey Class. No.: 306