Bøger af Helmuth Plessner

Considers whether politics - conceived as the struggle for power between groups, nations, and states - belongs to the essence of the human. Helmuth Plessner proposes a genealogy of political life and outlines an anthropological foundation of the political.

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 behaviour, both in themselves and in relation to human nature.