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Adolf Portmann

Author : Filip Jaroš
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030678105
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Adolf Portmann written by Filip Jaroš and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Portmann’s theoretical approach to the phenomenon of life, characterized by terms such as “inwardness” and “self-presentation.” Portmann’s 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 Portmann’s studies in the life sciences and application of Portmann’s 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and historians of science, this volume also includes a translation of an original essay by Portmann and a previously unpublished manuscript from his most remarkable English-speaking interpreter, philosopher Marjorie Grene. Portmann’s 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 Portmann’s 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 Portmann’s work and to reconsider and update his primary ideas in the contemporary context.

Animal Forms and Patterns

Author : Adolf Portmann
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Forms and Patterns written by Adolf Portmann and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1967 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Zoologist Looks at Humankind

Author : Adolf Portmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231061940
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book A Zoologist Looks at Humankind written by Adolf Portmann and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Paths in Biology

Author : Adolf Portmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book New Paths in Biology written by Adolf Portmann and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author discusses the cell and cellular formation and development; stimulus and perception and how these relate to the particular biological entity and its environment; the problems of biological ranking; and the mechanistic theory of evolution, which he considers an oversimplification of the evolutionary process. He closes with a discussion of two tendencies in modern biology: the attempt to formulate universal laws at a time when there are too many unanswered questions within the field; and the attempt to relate biological discoveries to a framework of ethics and behavior problems.--

Essays in Philosophical Zoology by Adolf Portmann

Author : Adolf Portmann
Publisher : Lewiston : E. Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Essays in Philosophical Zoology by Adolf Portmann written by Adolf Portmann and published by Lewiston : E. Mellen Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Living Form and the Seeing Eye should be of interest not only to philosophers but also to marine biologists (Emperor Hirohito, a marine biologist, was a reader of Portmann), students of natural history, those involved in the life sciences, zoologists, zoo managers, wildlife preservationists, and ethicists. The essays are translated into English and the volume includes an interpretive essay.

Color Symbolism

Author : Klaus Ottmann
Publisher : Spring Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
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Download or read book Color Symbolism written by Klaus Ottmann and published by Spring Publications. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven papers originally delivered at the annual Eranos conference in Ascona, Switzerland, August 1972, by Adolf Portmann, Gershom Scholem, Christopher Rowe, Dominique Zahan, Ernst Benz, René Huyghe, and Toshihiki Izutsu.

Animal Camouflage

Author : Adolf 1897-1982 Portmann
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013589911
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Animal Camouflage written by Adolf 1897-1982 Portmann and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks, Eranos 5

Author : Joseph Campbell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400885795
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks, Eranos 5 written by Joseph Campbell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by Ernst Benz, Henry Corbin, Jean Daniélou, Mircea Eliade, G. van der Leeuw, Fritz Meier, Adolf Portmann, Daisetz T. Suzuki, Paul Tillich, Lancelot Law Whyte, and Heinrich Zimmer. Originally published in 1964. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Understanding of Nature

Author : Marjorie Grene
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401022240
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Understanding of Nature written by Marjorie Grene and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No student or colleague of Marjorie Grene will miss her incisive presence in these papers on the study and nature of living nature, and we believe the new reader will quickly join the stimulating discussion and critique which Professor Grene steadily provokes. For years she has worked with equally sure knowledge in the classical domain of philosophy and in modern epistemological inquiry, equally philosopher of science and metaphysician. Moreover, she has the deeply sensible notion that she should be a critically intelligent learner as much as an imaginatively original thinker, and as a result she has brought insightful expository readings of other philosophers and scientists to her own work. We were most fortunate that Marjorie Grene was willing to spend a full semester of a recent leave here in Boston, and we have on other occasions sought her participation in our colloquia and elsewhere. Now we have the pleasure of including among the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science this generous selection from Grene's philosophical inquiries into the understanding of the natural world, and of the men and women in it. Boston University Center for the R. S. COHEN Philosophy and History of Science M. W. W ARTOFSKY April 1974 PREFACE This collection spans - spottily - years from 1946 ('On Some Distinctions between Men and Brutes') to 1974 ('On the Nature of Natural Necessity').

Metamorphosis

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Metamorphosis written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Man and Transformation

Author : Joseph Campbell
Publisher : Bollingen Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9780691018348
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Man and Transformation written by Joseph Campbell and published by Bollingen Foundation. This book was released on 1981-02-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by Ernst Benz, Henry Corbin, Jean Daniélou, Mircea Eliade, G. van der Leeuw, Fritz Meier, Adolf Portmann, Daisetz T. Suzuki, Paul Tillich, Lancelot Law Whyte, and Heinrich Zimmer.

Goethe and the Sciences: A Reappraisal

Author : F.R. Amrine
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940093761X
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Goethe and the Sciences: A Reappraisal written by F.R. Amrine and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: of him in like measure within myself, that is my highest wish. This noble individual was not conscious of the fact that at that very moment the divine within him and the divine of the universe were most intimately united. So, for Goethe, the resonance with a natural rationality seems part of the genius of modern science. Einstein's 'cosmic religion', which reflects Spinoza, also echoes Goethe's remark (Ibid. , Item 575 from 1829): Man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible. Else he would give up investigating. But how far will Goethe share the devotion of these cosmic rationalists to the beautiful harmonies of mathematics, so distant from any pure and 'direct observation'? Kepler, Spinoza, Einstein need not, and would not, rest with discovery of a pattern within, behind, as a source of, the phenomenal world, and they would not let even the most profound of descriptive generalities satisfy scientific curiosity. For his part, Goethe sought fundamental archetypes, as in his intuition of a Urpjlanze, basic to all plants, infinitely plastic. When such would be found, Goethe would be content, for (as he said to Eckermann, Feb. 18, 1829): . . . to seek something behind (the Urphaenomenon) is futile. Here is the limit. But as a rule men are not satisfied to behold an Urphaenomenon. They think there must be something beyond. They are like children who, having looked into a mirror, turn it around to see what is on the other side.

The Mysteries

Author : Joseph Campbell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691018232
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book The Mysteries written by Joseph Campbell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by Julius Baum, C. G. Jung, C. Kerényi, Hans Leisegang, Paul Masson-Oursel, Fritz Meier, Jean de Menasce, Georges Nagel, Walter F. Otto, Max Pulver, Hugo Rahner, Paul Schmitt, and Walter Wili.

Toward a More Natural Science

Author : Leon R. Kass
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439105685
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Toward a More Natural Science written by Leon R. Kass and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kass shows how the promise and the peril of our time are inextricably linked with the promise and the peril of modern science. The relation between the pursuit of knowledge and the conduct of life—between science and ethics, each broadly conceived—has in recent years been greatly complicated by developments in the science of life. This book examines the ethical questions involved in prenatal screening, in vitro fertilization, artificial life forms, and medical care, and discusses the role of human beings in nature.

Social Appearances

Author : Barbara Carnevali
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023154698X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Social Appearances written by Barbara Carnevali and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers have long distinguished between appearance and reality, and the opposition between a supposedly deceptive surface and a more profound truth is deeply rooted in Western culture. At a time of obsession with self-representation, when politics is enmeshed with spectacle and social and economic forces are intensely aestheticized, philosophy remains moored in traditional dichotomies: being versus appearing, interiority versus exteriority, authenticity versus alienation. Might there be more to appearance than meets the eye? In this strikingly original book, Barbara Carnevali offers a philosophical examination of the roles that appearances play in social life. While Western metaphysics and morals have predominantly disdained appearances and expelled them from their domain, Carnevali invites us to look at society, ancient to contemporary, as an aesthetic phenomenon. The ways in which we appear in public and the impressions we make in terms of images, sounds, smells, and sensations are discerned by other people’s senses and assessed according to their taste; this helps shape our ways of being and the world around us. Carnevali shows that an understanding of appearances is necessary to grasp the dynamics of interaction, recognition, and power in which we live—and to avoid being dominated by them. Anchored in philosophy and traversing sociology, art history, literature, and popular culture, Social Appearances develops new theoretical and conceptual tools for today’s most urgent critical tasks.

Unframing Aesthetics

Author : Pietro Conte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788869772221
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book Unframing Aesthetics written by Pietro Conte and published by . This book was released on 2019-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of the image has traditionally been considered as different and separate from the real world. This separation has been ensured by some kind of framing device, be it the pedestal of a statue, the frame of a painting, or the cinema screen. However, recent developments in image-making techniques have resulted in the production of hyper-realistic, immersive, and interactive virtual environments that make the threshold between image and reality blur, thus eliciting in the experiencer a strong feeling of being incorporated into a quasi-real world. This book introduces the concept of "un-framing" as a key to understanding this radically new iconoscape.

Of Human Interaction

Author : Joseph Luft
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
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Download or read book Of Human Interaction written by Joseph Luft and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: