Erich Rothacker
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"Rothacker, in Habermas's account, was successful in refining the arguments of Uexküll. It is not the case that human beings are simply open to the world, while animals are attuned to specific environmental habitats and signals; rather, humans create their own specific cultural environments, in which certain features are selectively endowed with more significance than others." --Myth and the Human Sciences: Hans Blumenberg's Theory of Myth, Angus Nicholls, 2014 |
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Erich Rothacker (March 12, 1888 – August 11, 1965) was a German philosopher, a leading exponent of philosophical anthropology.
Rothacker's first major work, Logik und Systematik der Geisteswissenschaften (Logic of the Human Sciences, 1920), presents the view that actual historical individuals, whose cognitive equipment is partially created by a specific cultural community while at the same time constantly modifying it, are the elements that constitute the subject of knowledge, rather than a timeless universal entity as it is represented by Descartes or Locke.
Works
- Einleitung in die Geisteswissenschaften (1920)
- Logik und Systematik der Geisteswissenschaften (Logic of the Human Sciences, 1920)
- Die Schichten der Persönlichkeit, 1938
- Mensch und Geschichte, 1944
- Probleme der Kulturanthropologie (Problems of the Anthropology of Culture, 1948)
