Contents:
1. Introduction
2. What is Man? Fundamental Questions and Diversity of Philosophical Anthropology
3. Theses on the Diversity of Anthropology: Differentiations in Philosophical Anthropology
4. In the Beginning Were the Southern Apes: On Paleoanthropology and the Evolutionary History of Humans
5. The Typically Human
6. Sociobiological Foundations of Group Action
7. From Köhler to Cassirer: Tools, Sign, and Symbol Functions in Primates and Humans
8. Scheler's Anthropology of the Open-Minded Spirit
9. Tornness and Excentricity of Man in Plessner
Excursus: Tugendhat's Thesis on the Primacy of Anthropology over Metaphysics
10. On Gehlen's Anthropological Culturalism
11. Symbolic-Creative Formation in Cassirer
12. On the Cultural Characterization of Humans
13. On Historical Anthropology
14. The Beginning of the Idea and Ethics of Concrete Humanity in Ancient China
15. Bioethics and Humanity
16. On the Anthropology of Sex, Sexuality, and Gender
17. The Social Nature of Mutualities and Rights
18. On Anthropological Perspectives in Religion and Theology Using Christianity as an Example
19. The Search for Meaning or Meaning-Making as an Interpretative Construct
20. On the Anthropology of the Person
21. On the Anthropology of Technology
22. Cyber-Anthropology?
23. On the Way to a Neuro-Anthropology?
24. On the Anthropology of Achievement
25. The Creative Being - On the Anthropology of Creativity
26. The Universal Cultural Being
Literature.