Gierycz European Dispute over the Concept of Man

A Study in Political Anthropology
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-61520-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 504 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Contributions to Political Science

The book is an original research work in the field of study rarely pursued in the analysis of intellectual dimensions of political and axiological disputes held in the European Union. These disputes are generally analysed at ideological, ethical, economic and interstate level. However, these references do not suffice to understand the essence of the issue, which concern divergent understanding of the essence of humanity and thus the subject matter of anthropology. The main research objective of the monograph is then to reconstruct the sources and the way of thinking about the human being specific for the European Union. At the theoretical level the book puts forward a definition of the concept of political anthropology, drawing on political science principles and an anthropological analysis of the EU's axiology. At the empirical level, it provides an analysis of the anthropological features of the EU's institutions and reveals the anthropological orientation of its policies, as well as the relation between the axiological and anthropological positions of the main national groups within the EU. Moreover, at the methodological level, it proposes a range of suitable instruments for pursuing anthropological research in the area of political science.


Micha? Gierycz is an associate professor of political science and a dean of the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszy?ski University in Warsaw, Poland. His main research areas include axiology and anthropology of politics, relations between religion and politics and European integration. He won the Countess Aniela Potulicka Award and the Feniks Award in 2018.

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Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gierycz, Michal

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- Part I: Political Anthropology and Studies in Political Science.- 2. Anthropologies and Their Relationships .- 3. Political Anthropologies.- 4. Towards a Politological Approach to Political Anthropology.- Part II: The Anthropological Dispute in European Political Thought.- 5. Two Visions of Politics and Two Visions of Man.- 6. Constrained Anthropology.- 7. Unconstrained Anthropology.- 8. The Anthropology of Late Modernity.- Part III: EU Political Disputes in the Anthropological Perspective.- 9. Around Morality Policy.- 10. Anthropological Pillars of EU Politics.- 11. Anthropological Analysis of the Language and Contents of EU Documents.- 12. Anthropological Analysis of EU Decision-Making Processes.- 13. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Michal Gierycz is an associate professor of political science and a dean of the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland. His main research areas include axiology and anthropology of politics, relations between religion and politics and European integration. He won the Countess Aniela Potulicka Award and the Feniks Award in 2018.