Being Humans: Anthropological Universality and Particularity in Transdisciplinary Perspectives

edited by Neil Roughley

Kant claimed that the principal topics of philosophy all converge on one question: Was ist der Mensch? Starting with the main claim that conceptions of the human play a significant structuring role in theory construction, the contributors in this volume (renowned scholars from various disciplines – philosophy, anthropology, psychology, literary studies) investigate the roles that conceptions of the human play both in philosophy and in other human and social sciences.