books about: humanprojekt (synchronic diachronic)

books about: humanprojekt

books:

Naturgeschichte der Freiheit (Humanprojekt 1) (Humanprojekt: Interdisziplinare Anthropologie)
Jan-Christoph Heilinger (Editor)

Walter de Gruyter, 2007

Freedom of will is one of the central concepts we use to define ourselves as human. Through the discoveries made in the fields of neuroscience and brain research however, the very basis of those concepts have come into question: Is our freedom simply the result of regulated processes? Or is our freedom to be found within the loopholes of that regulation? Or does freedom belong to a realm beyond the control of the biological and the physical? The ...

Quotative Indexes in African Languages. A Synchronic and Diachronic Survey (Humanprojekt, Interdisziplinare ...
Ganten, Detlev

Mouton de Gruyter, 2008

The book represents the results of a synchronic and diachronic cross-African survey of quotative indexes. These are linguistic expressions that signal in the ongoing discourse the presence of a quote (often called ""direct reported speech""). For this purpose, 39 African languages were selected to represent the genealogical and geographical diversity of the continent. The study is based primarily on this language sample, in particular on the ...

Was ist der Mensch? (Humanprojekt)
Ganten, Detlev

Walter de Gruyter, 2008

The question of the nature of man has occupied human beings everywhere and in every period including the present. The scientists, politicians, theologians, journalists, and writers assembled here give their personal responses to the question in fifty incisive contributions representing different cultural traditions. What is to be expected? Clearly not a conclusive answer to the question but rather a dazzling spectrum of contemporary positions ...