A modern classic, this powerful and sophisticated account of embodiment was first published in German in 1928 and now appears in English for the first time. Wit

The groundbreaking classic of twentieth-century German philosophy now available in English—with an introduction by J.M. Bernstein. Helmuth Plessner’s Levels

In Political Anthropology (originally published in 1931 as Macht und menschliche Natur), Helmuth Plessner considers whether politics--conceived as the struggle

In this classic of philosophical anthropology, Helmuth Plessner investigates the significance of laughing and crying, both in themselves and in relation to huma