Becoming Human: Romantic Anthropology and the Embodiment of Freedom

by Chad Wellmon

Book Overview

Immanuel Kant wrote that his infamously academic, arid philosophy posed three questions: What can I know? What can I do? What can I be permitted to hope for? He then added a fourth that he claimed would subsume them all: What is the human? This last question, he suggested, could be answered by a new science of man called anthropology. In Becoming Human, Chad Wellmon recounts the emergence of anthropology around a question that had become...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271048522
• ISBN13: 9780271048529
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"