{"product_id":"levels-of-organic-life-and-the-human-9780823283996","title":"Levels of Organic Life and the Human","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eForeword from the Helmuth Plessner Society\u003c\/b\u003e | vii\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTranslator’s Preface and Acknowledgments \u003c\/b\u003e| ix\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePreface to the First Edition (1928)\u003c\/b\u003e | xv\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePreface to the Second Edition (1965) \u003c\/b\u003e| xix\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/b\u003e| xxxvii\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJ. M. Bernstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1. \u003c\/b\u003eAim and Scope of the Study | 1\u003cbr\u003e The Development of Intuitionist Lebensphilosophie in Opposition to\u003cbr\u003e Experience, 3 • Lebensphilosophie and the Theory of the Humanities, 11 • \u003cbr\u003e Working Plan for the Foundation of a Philosophy of the Human, 22\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Cartesian Objection and the Nature of the Problem | 34\u003cbr\u003e Extension vs. Interiority and the Problem of Appearance, 34 •\u003cbr\u003e Appearance as Originating in Interiority, 38 • The Prior Givenness\u003cbr\u003e of Interiority and the Forward Displacement of Myself: The Proposition\u003cbr\u003e of Immanence 41 • Extension as Outer World; Interiority as Inner\u003cbr\u003e World, 46 • The Proposition of Representation and the Element\u003cbr\u003e of Sensation, 51 • The Inaccessibility of Other I’s according to the\u003cbr\u003e Principle of Sensualism, 55 • The Need for a Revision of the Cartesian\u003cbr\u003e Dichotomy in the Interest of a Science of Life, 58 • A Methodological\u003cbr\u003e Reformulation of the Opening Question, 64\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3.\u003c\/b\u003e The Thesis | 75\u003cbr\u003e The Question, 75 • The Dual Aspect in the Appearance of Ordinary\u003cbr\u003e Perceptual Things, 76 • Against the Misinterpretation of This Analysis:\u003cbr\u003e A Closer Focus on the Subject Matter, 81 • The Dual Aspect of Living\u003cbr\u003e Perceptual Things: Köhler contra Driesch, 84 • How Is Dual Aspectivity\u003cbr\u003e Possible? The Nature of the Boundary, 93 • The Task of a Theory of the\u003cbr\u003e Essential Characteristics of the Organic, 99 • Definitions of Life, 104 •\u003cbr\u003e Nature and Object of a Theory of the Essential Characteristics of the\u003cbr\u003e Organic, 110\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Modes of Being of Vitality | 115\u003cbr\u003e Essential Characteristics Indicating Vitality, 115 • The Positionality of\u003cbr\u003e Living Being and Its Spacelikeness, 118 • Living Being as Process\u003cbr\u003e and Type; the Dynamic Character of the Living Form; the Individuality of the\u003cbr\u003e Living Thing, 123 • Living Process as Development, 129 • The Curve of\u003cbr\u003e Development: Aging and Death, 137 • The Individual Living Thing as a\u003cbr\u003e System, 144 • The Self-Regulation of the Individual Living Thing\u003cbr\u003e and the Harmonious Equipotentiality of Its Parts, 149 • Individual Living Things\u003cbr\u003e as Organized: The Dual Meaning of Organs, 154 • The Temporality of\u003cbr\u003e Living Being, 159 • The Positional Union of Space and Time and the\u003cbr\u003e Natural Place, 168\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5.\u003c\/b\u003e The Organizational Modes of Living Being: Plants and Animals | 172\u003cbr\u003e The Circle of Life, 172 • Assimilation—Dissimilation, 182 •\u003cbr\u003e Adaptedness and Adaptation, 186 • Reproduction, Heredity,\u003cbr\u003e Selection, 196 • The Open Form of Organization of the Plant, 202 •\u003cbr\u003e The Closed Form of Organization of the Animal, 209\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Sphere of the Animal | 219\u003cbr\u003e The Positionality of the Closed Form: Centrality and Frontality, 219 •\u003cbr\u003e The Coordination of Stimulus and Response in the Case of an Inoperative\u003cbr\u003e Subject (Decentralized Type of Organization), 227 • The Coordination of\u003cbr\u003e Stimulus and Response by a Subject (Centralized Type of Organization),\u003cbr\u003e 231 • The Animal’s Surrounding Field Organized into Complex Qualities and\u003cbr\u003e Things, 242 • Intelligence, 252 • Memory, 257 • Memory as the Unity of\u003cbr\u003e Residue and Anticipation, 262 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e7. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Sphere of the Human | 267\u003cbr\u003e The Positionality of the Excentric Form: “I” and Personhood, 267 •\u003cbr\u003e Outer World, Inner World, Shared World, 272 • The Fundamental Laws\u003cbr\u003e of Anthropology: The Law of Natural Artificiality, 287 • The Law of\u003cbr\u003e Mediated Immediacy: Immanence and Expressivity, 298 • The Law of\u003cbr\u003e the Utopian Standpoint: Nullity and Transcendence, 316\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAppendix | \u003c\/i\u003e323\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGlossary | \u003c\/i\u003e337\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes | \u003c\/i\u003e345\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex | \u003c\/i\u003e359\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406155555159,"sku":"9780823283996","price":102.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823283996.jpg?v=1730494720","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/levels-of-organic-life-and-the-human-9780823283996","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}