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Author:   Rebekka A. Klein ,  Martina Sitling
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   3
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.686kg
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9789004191990

ISBN 10:   9004191992
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   09 June 2011
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Table of Contents

Volume Foreword ... xiii Acknowledgements ... xv Introduction ... 1 1 Phenomenological Criticism of Science ... 1 2 The Primacy of Philosophical Anthropology ... 3 3 Natural Foundation of Anthropology in Current Economics ... 10 4 The Relational Approach to Anthropology in Social Philosophy ... 15 5 The Double Description of Anthropology in Theology ... 20 Chapter One Anthropology as a Representation of Humanity ... 27 6 Interdisciplinary Anthropology ... 27 7 Anthropology and Sociality in the Individual Disciplines ... 29 7.1 Theological Figures of Thought on Nature and Humanity ... 30 7.1.1 The Difference between ‘Natura Lapsa’ and ‘Oeconomia Naturae’ ... 32 7.1.2 Isomorphism of Nature, Humanity and Society? ... 34 7.2 Basic Anthropological Paradigms of Experimental Economics ... 35 7.2.1 Human vs. Rational Behavior ... 36 7.2.2 Human vs. Animal Behavior ... 38 7.3 Philosophical Points of Entry in Anthropology ... 42 7.3.1 Anthropology as Human Self-Inquiry ... 42 7.3.2 Alternatives: The Dualism and Monism of Anthropology ... 48 8 Anthropological Key Differences ... 50 8.1 Heidegger: Humanity as the Truth of Being ... 52 8.2 Agamben: The Dissolution of the Animal Construct ... 56 8.3 Adorno: Dehumanization through Society ... 63 8.4 Conclusion ... 66 9 The Human Condition as a Concrete Condition of Existence ... 67 9.1 Barthes: The Human Condition as Myth ... 68 9.2 Arendt: Loss of the Social ‘Human Condition’? ... 70 10 Plessner: Humanity and Bodily Existence ... 77 10.1 The Broken Relation to the World ... 81 10.2 From the Shared World (‘Mitwelt’) to Interpersonal Relations ... 83 10.3 Conclusion ... 87 11 Concreteness, Objectivity and Phenomenal Excess ... 89 Chapter Two The Conflict between Egoism and Altruism ... 91 12 Possibilities and Limitations of an Empirical Anthropology ... 91 13 The Economic Modeling of Human Social Behavior ... 94 13.1 The Methodological Paradigm Shifts of Experimental Economics ... 97 13.2 Skepticism about the Homo Oeconomicus ... 101 13.3 Backgrounds to the Critical Assessment of the Homo Oeconomicus Model ... 104 14 The Methodology of Experimental Economics ... 109 14.1 Translatability of Laboratory and Experiential World ... 111 14.1.1 Empirical Explanation and Methodological Object Constitution in Experiments ... 111 14.1.2 The Validity of Experimental Findings Outside of the Laboratory ... 114 14.2 Construction Principles of Economic Laboratory Experiments ... 117 14.2.1 The Experiment as a Strategic Course of Action ... 118 14.2.2 The Experiment as Selective Replication of Reality ... 119 14.2.3 Game Theory and Hypothesis Formation in the Behavioral Experiment ... 123 15 The Modeling of Social Preferences ... 129 15.1 What are Preferences? ... 129 15.2 The Ultimatum Game and Inequity Aversion of Social Agents ... 132 16 Norms for Cooperative Behavior ... 136 16.1 Sanctions in Public Goods Games ... 136 16.2 Social Norms as a Second-Order Public Good? ... 140 17 From ‘Homo Reciprocans’ to ‘Homo Altruisticus’ ... 148 17.1 Negative Reciprocity: Ultimatum Game ... 150 17.2 Positive Reciprocity: Trust Game ... 150 17.3 Pure Altruism: Dictator Game ... 152 17.4 Strong Reciprocity: Altruistic Punishment and Rewarding ...154 18 The Utility Expectation of Altruistic Agents ... 157 18.1 Psychological, Biological, and Moral Altruism ... 158 18.2 Personal Satisfaction in Altruistic Punishment ... 161 19 Affective Empathy: The Significance of Social Emotions ... 167 20 The Phenomenal Excess of Social Interaction ... 171 21 Conclusion ... 173 21.1 Critique ... 173 21.2 Theses ... 178 21.3 On the Sense and Nonsense of Talking about Altruism ... 184 Chapter Three Difference in the Interpersonal Relation ... 187 22 Three Constellations of the Interpersonal Relation ... 187 23 Human Nature and its Function for the Legitimation of Political Order ... 189 23.1 The Separation of Politics and Nature in the Model of Societal Order ... 191 23.2 The Genesis of Order from Contingence ... 195 24 Antagonism: The Irreducibility of Difference ... 198 24.1 Laclau and Mouffe: Antagonism and Democracy ... 199 24.2 Critical Assessment of the Liberal, Deliberative Model of Society ... 204 25 Recognition: The Pacification of Difference ... 206 25.1 Recognition: Normative Demand or Real-Life Practice? ... 208 25.2 Post-Hegelian Perspectives on Recognition ... 210 25.2.1 Honneth: Recognition and Its Negative Forms ... 210 25.2.2 Taylor: Recognition and the Risk of Homogenizing Difference ... 214 25.2.3 García Düttmann: A Critical Assessment of Restorative Recognition ... 217 25.3 Ricoeur’s Concept of Mutual Symbolic Recognition ... 221 25.3.1 The Critique of Reciprocity ... 222 25.3.2 The Critique of Equal Recognition ... 223 25.3.3 Symbolic Recognition ... 224 25.3.4 States of Peace: Recognition and Religious Agape ... 225 26 Alterity: Difference as the Source of Responsibility ... 227 26.1 Levinas’ Ethical Reconception of Humanity ... 229 26.2 The Impossibility of Social Inhumanity ... 232 26.3 The Relationship to the Other as the Third and the Standards of Justice ... 235 26.4 Beyond the Symmetry of Egalitarian Relationships ... 237 26.5 God’s Invisibility ... 238 27 Conclusion ... 241 Chapter Four Humanity and Inhumanity in the Love of Neighbor ... 245 28 Theological Reservations against an Immanence of the Social ... 245 29 Biblical Usage and Hermeneutical Function of the Word ‘Neighbor’ ... 252 29.1 The Biblical Contexts of Caring for the Other Human Being ... 254 29.2 Who is my Neighbor – the Wrong Question? ... 256 29.3 Terminological Delineations ... 258 29.4 Hermeneutical Analysis of the Word ‘Neighbor’ ... 259 29.5 Proximity and Distance in the Love of Neighbor ... 260 30 Social Criticism Instead of Morality ... 263 31 Meisinger: Anthropological Awareness of Difference ... 267 32 Kierkegaard: Humanity as the Phenomenal Excess of God’s Love ... 271 32.1 Kierkegaard’s Method of Analysis ... 271 32.2 The Negative Definition of the Neighbor ... 273 32.3 Self-Love and the Deficiencies of Interpersonal Love ... 279 33 Beyond Kierkegaard: The Love of Neighbor and Inhumanity ... 283 33.1 Adorno: The Dead Neighbor ... 284 33.2 Žižek, Santner, Reinhard: The Neighbor as a Figure of Inhumanity ... 287 34 Humanity and Inhumanity as Reflected by Mercy ... 291 34.1 Lack of Consequences and Resources ... 291 34.2 Lack of Expectations ... 293 34.3 Unpredictability: The Phenomenal Abundance of Practicing Mercy ... 295 34.4 Inhuman Mercilessness ... 297 35 Conclusion ... 299 Final Thoughts ... 303 36 Multiperspectivity Instead of Transdisciplinarity ... 303 37 Result of this Study ... 305 Bibliography ... 309 Index of Names ... 321 Index of Subjects ... 323

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Rebekka A. Klein, Dr. theol. (2009) in Systematic Theology, University of Zurich, is Dilthey-Fellow at the Institute of Systematic Theology, University of Halle-Wittenberg. She has published on philosophy of economics, phenomenological anthropology, Christian ethics and political theology.

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