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This is the third Edition. This book explores the human uniqueness of crying and laughing and the range and subtlety of these human expressions from a philosophical perspective.
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HELMUTH PLESSNER (1892–1985) was a leading figure in the field of philosophical anthropology. He was the author of more than thirteen books, including The Limits of Community: A Critique of Social Radicalism, Levels of Organic Life and the Human: An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology, and Political Anthropology.
J. M. BERNSTEIN is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral Injury.
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Condition: Very Good. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in silver foil; xiii,[1],172pp. Cloth extremities and spine sunned, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper; else Very Good and sound. Seller Inventory # 27330
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LAUGHING AND CRYING A Study of the Limits of Human Behavior
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Hardcover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. 1st English ed. (1st German-1941). A translation of the 1961 3rd German edition, issued in the series 'Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology and Existentialist Philosophy'. xiii+172; prev.owner's small gilt label top front pastedown otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked; green cloth covers clean and minimally worn but spine slightly sunfaded. In her foreword Grene suggests 'philosophical anthropology' as the best genre-name for this work. Subsequent interest among radical and critical psychologists in the role of the body perhaps renders it less anomalous now. Apparently extremely scarce, hardly known in UK. Seller Inventory # 007957
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