Plessner’s Philosophical Anthropology: From the Philosophy of Nature to Politics

Abstract

One of the most pressing tasks of contemporary thought is to think together the two discourses which have most fully developed the two poles of anthropogenesis, biological life and the symbolic legal order: Lacanian psychoanalysis (often in conjunction with Hegelian and 1 Earlier versions of certain parts of this essay were given as talks at the University of Dundee on Wednesday 20 November, 2019 and at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne on Friday 6 December, 2019. Many thinks to those who participated, and in particular to the organisers, Frank Ruda and Sinéad Murphy, for their ongoing support, as well as the two reviewers for Stasis for their supportive and generous comments. 2 eng