Passions and Addictions in Helmuth Plessner’s Philosophical AnthropologyHans-Peter Krüger (Universität Potsdam)
Amsterdam
Netherlands
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- Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis
- Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
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The Significance of Phenomenology
Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam
Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
Thursday 24th April, 16.00-18.00
Hans-Peter Krüger (Potsdam)Passions and Addictions in Helmuth Plessner’s Philosophical Anthropology
Location: C2.23, Oudemanhuispoort
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Abstract:
Passions and addictions are noticed as deviations from the usual performance of personal roles. A passion stands out as an overfulfilment of it, i. e. like an excentric movement out of the role’s habitus. An addiction seems to be less of what can be expected in such a performance, i. e. as a con-centric movement into the individual behind the mask. Both phenomena belong in an all too human way insofar the person affected individualizes itself in them and can limit them by conditions. But, both phenomena tend to become a whole and unconditioned in leading one’s life. Insofar, they can lead to an extraordinary conflict between a concrete individualization and a given order of roles for living persons. Both phenomena are characteristic for the dramatic historicity in the human condition, that is for the relation of reversibility (having a body) and irreversibility (living the body) in leading one’s own life.
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