#helmuth plessner

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Humans Are Nature’s Eccentrics—Laughing and Crying Show Why

Remarkably, the acts of laughing and crying reveal there are no givens for individual behavior nor blueprints for human society.

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Humans Are Nature’s Eccentrics—Laughing and Crying Show Why

Remarkably, the acts of laughing and crying reveal there are no givens for individual behavior nor blueprints for human society.

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There have certainly been periods (and will be again in the future) when this fissure was not spoken of and the consciousness of the constitutive homelessness of the human being was covered over by strong ties to land and family, to hearth and ancestors. But these periods were not at peace, either, unless they sought peace. The idea of paradise, of the state of innocence and the Golden Age, which every human generation has known (today this idea is called 'community') points to what the human lacks and to his knowledge of this lack, by virtue of which he stands above the animal. As an excentrically organized being, the human must make himself into what he already is. -- Plessner, Levels of Organic Life and the Human

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The science of laughter: Helmuth Plessner’s Laughing and Crying revisited

The science of laughter: Helmuth Plessner’s Laughing and Crying revisited

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Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews is an electronic, peer-reviewed journal that publishes timely reviews of scholarly philosophy books.

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"First published in German in 1940 and widely recognized as a classic of philosophical anthropology, Laughing and Crying is a detailed investigation of these two particularly significant types of expressive behavior, both in themselves and in relation to human nature. Elaborating the philosophical account of human life he developed in Levels of Organic Life and the Human: An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology, Plessner suggests that laughing and crying are expressions of a crisis brought about in certain situations by the relation of a person to their body.

With a new foreword by J. M. Bernstein that situates the book within the broader framework of Plessner's philosophical anthropology and his richly suggestive and powerful account of human bodily life, Laughing and Crying is essential reading for anyone interested in the philosophy of the body, emotions, and human behavior."