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Imagining excentric and poly(ex)centric positionality: Modelling Helmuth Plessner’s theory as ‘philosophical transformative learning in action’ in higher education by Elke Müller is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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Modelling Helmuth Plessner's theory as 'philosophical transformative learning in action' in higher education How to imagine a philosophical theory which seems a priori by nature? How is an academic philosopher, humanities researcher, or scientist with an interest in philosophy able to imagine, understand and reproduce a philosophical theory that's highly abstract in a way, because the theory is a priory by nature and doesn't use a lot of examples that relate to daily life? For example, Helmuth Plessner's Die Stufen des Organischen und der Mensch (1928)? Talking from my own experience as a trained academic philosopher with a master's degree and a PhD in philosophy of anthropology and technology (Müller 2009), it takes a lot of analytical training and many years of study to build a huge 'internal mental mind map'looking like a gigantic spider's web or grid with interrelated philosophical and other scientific conceptsthat serves as a road map to compare ideas, deepen the understanding of formerly read texts and gain new perspectives on philosophy as a discipline and life in general. Working in academia, this way of reading texts, understanding theories, producing papers and a disserta
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- Author
- Elke Müller
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2021
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)