Description:
This is the first English translation of Helmuth Plessner's seminal work Political Anthropology (1931). In it, he outlines the anthropological foundations of the political and, in critical dialogue with Carl Schmitt, Eric Voegelin, and Martin Heidegger, seeks to dignify the political as a domain in which power enhances life.
Review Quotes:
"Political Anthropology is a compelling and luminous introduction to Helmuth Plessner's philosophical anthropology; it is also a timely and urgent response to the rampant skepticism about political life now current. In demonstrating that politics belongs to the very fabric and 'unfathomability' of being human, Plessner returns to the human sciences a depth and indispensability for addressing our present." --J. M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research