Gestalt Theory and Classical 20th-Century Philosophical Anthropology. Initial Analyses and Questions

• Authors: Czerniak Stanisław
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In his paper the author reconstructs the categorial relations between Gestalt psychol-ogy and theory and classical 20th-century philosophical anthropology (Max Scheler, Helmuth Plessner). In the first part, entitled Inspirations, it is analysed how the views of a key 20th-century Gestalt theorist Wolfgang Köhler influenced Scheler, the author of The Human Place in the Cosmos. In part two, Parallels, the author investigates the categorial similarities between Plessner’s anthropology of laughter and contemporary comicality conceptions based on Gestalt psychology (Hellmuth Metz- Göckel).

Keywords

EN

Gestalt theory; philosophical anthropology; intelligence; spirit; the whole; field; form; sensation; perception; eccentric position; laughter; joke structures; background-figure relations

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 115-130

Contributors

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Czerniak Stanisław

• Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland