Adolf Portmann : a thinker of self-expressive life / Filip Jaroš, Jiří Klouda, editors.
Jaroš, Filip.; Klouda, Jiří.
2021
QH331 .A46 2021eb
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Title Adolf Portmann : a thinker of self-expressive life / Filip Jaroš, Jiří Klouda, editors.
ISBN 9783030678104 (electronic bk.)
3030678105 (electronic bk.)
9783030678098
3030678091
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67810-4
Published Cham : Springer, 2021.
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 273 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-67810-4 doi
Call Number QH331 .A46 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 570.1
Summary This edited volume is the first specialized book in English about the Swiss zoologist and anthropologist Adolf Portmann (1897-1982). It provides a clarification and update of Portmanns theoretical approach to the phenomenon of life, characterized by terms such as inwardness and self-presentation. Portmanns concepts of secondary altriciality and the social uterus have become foundational in philosophical anthropology, providing a benchmark of the difference between humans and animals. In its content, this book brings together two approaches: historical and philosophical analysis of Portmanns studies in the life sciences and application of Portmanns thought in the fields of biology, anthropology, and biosemiotics. Significant attention is also paid to the methodological implications of his intended reform of biology. Besides contributions from contemporary biologists, philosophers, and historians of science, this volume also includes a translation of an original essay by Portmann and a previously unpublished manuscript from his most remarkable English-speaking interpreter, philosopher Marjorie Grene. Portmanns conception of life is unique in its focus on the phenomenal appearance of organisms. Confronted with the enormous amount of scientific knowledge being produced today, it is even clearer than it was during Portmanns lifetime that although biologists employ physical and chemical methods, biology itself is not (only) physics and chemistry. These exact methods must be applied according to what has meaning for living beings. If biology seeks to understand organisms as autonomous agents, it needs to take display and the interpretation of appearances as basic characteristics of life. The topic of this book is significantly relevant to the disciplines of theoretical biology, philosophy, philosophical anthropology, and biosemiotics. The recent epigenetic turn in biology, acknowledging the interconnections between organismal development, morphology and communication, presents an opportunity to revisit Portmanns work and to reconsider and update his primary ideas in the contemporary context.
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Klouda, Jiří.
Series Biosemiotics ; v. 23.
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Introduction
Part I: Paving a Path to the New Biology
New Fronts of Biological Work
The Language of Nature Reread
Part II: Biology, Biosemiotics, Anthropology
Adolf Portmann: The Researcher and the Teacher
Novel Ecological Mismatches in the Light of Jakob von Uexküll's and Adolf Portmann's Works
Revisiting Basal Anthropology: A Developmental Approach to Human Evolution and sociality
Part III: Philosophical Aspects of Portmann's Work
Portmann, Goethe and Modern Biology: Two and a Half Ways of Looking at Nature
Playing Appearances: On Some Aspects of Portmann's Contribution to Philosophical Aesthetics
Ptolemaic Man and Copernican Man: In Favour of "Depth Anthropology"
The "New Morphology" between biology and philosophy: the hermeneutic dimension of Portmann's thought
Part IV: Historical Context and Later Reception
The Beauty of Organisms: Biological Aesthetics Between Darwin and Portmann
On the Brink of the Expressible: Adolf Portmann Meets Carl Gustav Jung on Eranos Ground
The Czech Reception of Portmann.

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