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Gunter Gebauer

Neuere Veröffentlichungen der Anthropologie

Section: Artikel
Volume 71 (2024) / Issue 4, pp. 398-410 (13)
Published 31.03.2025
DOI 10.1628/phr-2024-0032
Published in German.
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Summary
David Graeber and David Wengrow turn the perspective of western cultural anthropology and find in indigenous cultures astonishing forms of political self government, social experiments, and libertarian organisations of the community. Michael Tomasello provides a comprehensive new perspective of the development of the psychology of modern humans. His studies are based on a transformation of Vygotskij's developmental psychology into an epigenetic theory. Gerhard Roth explains how the structure of the brain affects the mind, soul, and social behaviour of people. The focus is on six basic psycho-neural systems, the characteristics of which determine an individual person's temperament. In his Defence of the Human Being Thomas Fuchs turns against the dominant model of neurobiology. As a counter-model he proposes the concept of an embodied subjectivity based on phenomenological philosophy.
David Graeber/David Wengrow, Anfänge: eine neue Geschichte der Menschheit, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2022. 672 S. - Michael Tomasello, Mensch werden. Eine Theorie der Ontogenese, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2022. 542 S. - Gerhard Roth, Über den Menschen, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2021. 368 S. - Thomas Fuchs, Verteidigung des Menschen. Grundfragen einer verkörperten Anthropologie, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2020. 331 S.