Anthropology of Symbolic Forms
Study Cycle: 1
Lectures: 30
Seminars: 0
Tutorials: 0
ECTS credit: 3
Lecturer(s): prof. dr. Ošlaj Borut
1. Introductory lectures will be devoted to a critical presentation of the conceptual and methodological understanding of man in contemporary philosophical anthropology.
2. Presuppositions of the understanding of man as animal symbolicum (diaphora, symbol, symbolic forms).
3. Diaphoric theory of symbolic forms (religion and metaphysics).
4. Cassirer’s theory of symbolic forms.
5. Jonas’ anthropological artefacts: tool, image, grave.
6. Plessner’s theory of eccentric positionality.
7. Symbolic forms and the problem of freedom.
1) Cassirer, Ernst: An Essay on Man, New Haven 1976, str. 1-26, 67-68, 222-228. COBISS.SI-ID - 2096994
2) Plessner, Helmuth: Levels of organic life and the human : an introduction to philosophical anthropology, New York: Fordham University Press, 2019, str. 267-286. COBISS.SI-ID - 108240899
3) Scheler, Max: Položaj človeka v kozmosu, Ljubljana 1998, str. 32-50. COBISS.SI-ID - 77227520
4) Ošlaj, Borut: Antropoetika, Ljubljana 2005, str. 15-76. COBISS.SI-ID - 225732352