Life Configurations

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2014

Life Configurations

Edited by: Gert Melville and Carlos Ruta

In the series Challenges of Life: Essays on philosophical and cultural anthropology

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110338737

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Life Configurations focuses on the analysis and reflection on the various forms in which human beings imagine, design, conjecture, and plan their ‍“becoming”, that is to say their lives. Case studies written by an interdisciplinary circle of well-known academics explore how the capacity of designing life, the concept of free will, and the methods to calculate the future have been changed and adopted in different societies and in different ages.

Author / Editor information

Gert Melville, TU Dresden, and Carlos Ruta, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface to the series “Challenges of Life” Gert Melville Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Life Configurations Carlos Rafael Ruta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Philosophical Foundations
Contributions for considering the possibility of all life configurations Carlos Rafael Ruta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
“Philosophical Anthropology” as an Interpretation of Human Life Forms Karl-Siegbert Rehberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Life and Language Edgardo Castro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
Historical Perspectives
Carpe diem: Time and Life Configuration in the Hellenistic Roman World Gregor Vogt-Spira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Life Configurations in the Middle Ages between Divine Acting and Human Self-Determination Gert Melville Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Foreseeing the Future Under a Communist Regime Claudio Ingerflom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Cultural Identities
Explaining the Vicissitudes of Human Life: The Indian View Gaya Charan Tripathi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Life Configurations: Perceived Patternings in Pre-modern China John Timothy Wixted Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
The Muslim Conduct of Life: Paths of Continuity Tilman Nagel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
Sorcery comes from nearby Problems of the human condition according to some Amazonian indigenous peoples Marina Vanzolini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
Returning to the Land, Evoking the Past, and Sowing the Future Guaraní and Tapiete Indians and the Formation of New Rural Communities in Northwestern Argentina Silvia María Hirsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
Life as Quotidian Acts of Justice in Northern Mozambique Juan Obarrio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Politics – Economics – Ethics
Configurations of (Political) Life Sandro Chignola Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
The Politics of Survival Marc Abélès Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
What’s Alive for Economics? Marie Cuillerai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Can Ethics Shape Modern Societies? Friedrich Wilhelm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
Art and Literature
Why Do We Need Masterpieces? Ricardo Ibarlucía Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Elpenor, the Emmaus Pilgrim and the Missing One The Painting and the Historical Problem of Life Configuration José Emilio Burucúa and Nicolás Kwiatkowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
The Rise and Fall of Objects and Their Relationship with Man Mario Trimarchi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
Musil’s Reconfiguring of Austria’s (reluctant) Entry into Modernity Kathrin H. Rosenfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
About the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Historians, cultural anthropologists, theologians
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 268
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 30
Keywords: Kulturanthropologie; Grundfragen menschlicher Existenz

eBook

Published: September 11, 2014
ISBN: 9783110338737

Hardcover

Published: August 19, 2014
ISBN: 9783110338690