Non siamo mai stati carenti. La tecnicità costitutiva dell’esistenza umana secondo Paul Alsberg

Pavanini, Marco

Non siamo mai stati carenti. La tecnicità costitutiva dell’esistenza umana secondo Paul Alsberg

Pavanini, Marco

Authors

Marco Pavanini marco.pavanini@durham.ac.uk
PGR Student Doctor of Philosophy

Abstract

Paul Alsberg (1883-1965) represent a minor, though influential author within philosophical anthropology. The aim of this paper is firstly to analyze some of his most relevant intuitions concerning the problem of hominization and the nature of the tool. In his work Das Menschheitsrätsel (1922) he conceptualizes the prosthetic dynamics of technical practice, maintaining that human biological lack descends from tool-using and tool-making and consequently do not elicit it. This allows him to theorize a constitutive simultaneity and reciprocity between anthropogenesis and technogenesis. The second half of the paper develops some critical remarks on Alsberg’s theory. It considers questionable the assumption made by Alsberg of a difference of nature between human and animal and of the independence of the environment from the adaptive action of man. Nevertheless, Alsberg’s thesis may provide an interesting contribution within the current debate about hominization and the question of technics.

Citation

Pavanini, M. (2018). Non siamo mai stati carenti. La tecnicità costitutiva dell’esistenza umana secondo Paul Alsberg. S&F scienzaefilosofia.it, 19, 144-154

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Jan 1, 2018
Deposit Date	Jan 30, 2020
Publicly Available Date	Feb 4, 2020
Journal	S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it
Publisher	ISSUU
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	19
Pages	144-154
Publisher URL	https://www.scienzaefilosofia.com/2018/07/08/non-siamo-mai-stati-carenti-la-tecnicita-costitutiva-dellesistenza-umana-secondo-paul-alsberg/

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