Diogenes" Lantern

The book holds a retrospective analysis of the evolution of a person"s understanding in European philosophy - from the first conceptualization of man from Aristotle to the theory of practicing themselves. In the prize of today"s anthropological situation, the path of thought about a person appears to the correlation path of philosophy in the vision of Heidegger: The oblivion of being finds self-confidence in the "Oblivion of Man". Retronowled the initial stages of European anthropology, the book focuses on revealing the genesis "antianthropologism" of classical metaphysics in Descartes and Kant. Under the chosen angle of view, the hegel system turns out to be the limit point of the antianthropological trend, and the philosophy of the opponent of Hegel Kierkegor - the initial point of the opposite trend, returning to the person. The beginning and end (to this day) of this trend get the most attention: the book details the reconstruct anthropology of Kierkegor and the late Foucault. In the interval, only Nietzsche and Heidegger are allocated (without appeal to which the anthropological retrospective is unthinkable), as well as steel - as an interesting example, showing how the capabilities discovered for the anthropology of phenomenology can be completely missed.
Objectives of retrospectives are far from simple descriptation: the book seeks to understand the movement of the thought of a person in the light of today"s problems of this thought, re-exposed reflection themselves the foundations of anthropology, its status and place in the ensemble of humanitarian knowledge. This fundamental problem is highlighted from the standpoint and in the concepts of synergia anthropology, the new anthropological direction developed by the author. In the last chapter, synergific anthropology is explicitly: its systematic comparison with the theory of practicing itself allows you to outline possible strategies for promoting new anthropology