Volume 24, Issue 1, 2014
The Experience of Animality
Jens Loenhoff
Pages 73-86
On the Notion of the Boundary in the Philosophical Anthropology of Helmuth Plessner
Within the philosophical anthropology of Helmuth Plessner the concept of the boundary plays a prominent role. As a basic idea to understand the existence of living
organisms the key concept of the boundary allows to conceive the specifics of human extistence in the term of the eccentric positionality as a fundamental constitution of
man. The article tries to reconstruct the genesis and the systematic content of the concept of the boundary and to outline the consequences for Plessner’s social philosophy.