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Robert Engelman Vanderbilt University, USA Abstract This paper identifies and articulates a historicist turn in theorising the human senses initiated by Feuerbach and Marx. Both philosophers retain their predecessors’ view that human needs determine human senses, but they identify historical contingencies of
Dec 14, 2023 · That said, taken together, these logics clarify what it means for Marx when he says that the ‘forming of the five senses is a labour of the entire history of the world down to the present’. 57 While Habermas may be right that Marx means this ‘literally’, addressing this issue via Gandesha’s distinction clarifies that it presents an ambiguity: Namely, for Marx, the human senses are ...
- Robert Engelman
Abstract. This paper identifies and articulates a historicist turn in theorising the human senses initiated by Feuerbach and Marx. Both philosophers retain their predecessors’ view that human needs determine human senses, but they identify historical contingencies of human needs that they treat as introducing historical contingency into the ...
- Robert Engelman
recognized work on the comparative history of Anglo-American procedure, filling a gap in our legal literature as did Engelman for the European world in his History of Continental Civil Procedure, which, incidentally, was both trans-lated and edited by Robert Wyness Millar.8 Such an effort constitutes an
Dec 14, 2023 · Abstract. This paper identifies and articulates a historicist turn in theorising the human senses initiated by Feuerbach and Marx. Both philosophers retain their predecessors’ view that human needs determine human senses, but they identify historical contingencies of human needs that they treat as introducing historical contingency into the ...
- Robert Engelman
Robert Engelman is a doctoral student at Vanderbilt University, Department of Philosophy. Follow them to stay up to date with their professional activities in philosophy, and browse their publications such as "The historicisation of the human senses from Feuerbach to Marx", "Reading Into It or Hearing It Out? Cavell on Modernism and the Art Critic's Hermeneutical Risk", and "Modern Scepticism ...
Jun 1, 2009 · Robert Engelman directs research on connections between family planning and environmental sustainability at the Worldwatch Institute, where he was formerly president. For many years he reported on ...
