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Neither biological research nor speculative philosophy, Plessner’s efforts, like those of Wittgenstein, were devoted towards conceptual investigation, in this case of the concept of ‘life’. The results of such investigation, I propose, amount to a structural narratology. ‘What do we mean when we talk of “life”’? ‘What are “humans”’? Answers to these questions involve narrative.
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Davis, S. (2015). Plessner’s Conceptual Investigations of ‘Life’: Structural Narratology. In: Honenberger, P. (eds) Naturalism and Philosophical Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137500885_6
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