Where Could an Anthropological Turn Lead the Humanities and the Arts?

This paper discusses the possible significations of a so-called anthropological turn in the field of the Humanities and Arts. The text focuses on the meaning of Anthropology and its application in these fields. In this sense, two great conceptions of Anthropology are distinguished: an understanding...

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Autor: Gumbrecht, Hans-Ulrich
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repositorio:Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/21210
Acceso en línea:https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/21210
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Philosophy
Anthropology
Paradigm
Humanities
Arts
Filosofia
Antropologia
Paradigma
Ciências Humanas
Artes
Philosophie
Anthropologie
Paradigme
Sciences Humaines
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Sumario:This paper discusses the possible significations of a so-called anthropological turn in the field of the Humanities and Arts. The text focuses on the meaning of Anthropology and its application in these fields. In this sense, two great conceptions of Anthropology are distinguished: an understanding of Anthropology as an attempt at a singular, meta-historical and transcultural determination of a valid definition of what it means to be human; and another whose use predominates in the Anglo-American contemporary context, in which different ways of being human are considered, instead of a single conception. The text also discusses the word ‘reviravolta’ [overturn] which the Humanities and the Arts have been trying to point out and identify as what is or should be the contemporary thought in those fields.