Thomas Schwarz Wentzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 113333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Schwarz Wentzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas Schwarz |
| FAMILY NAME | Wentzer |
| SIGNATURE | WENTZER T S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7434-4741 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Pinxten, Rik
Care and resentment. An essay on moral temporality
Whereas caring is commonly perceived as a moral virtue or a socially beneficial ethical practice, resentment appears to represent its opposite. Advocates of care ethics have vehemently criticized the abstract and aloof nature of traditional ethical theories and argue that care ethics offers a perspective from which we may appreciate interpersonal sensitivity and responsiveness to individuals, per se. Following in the philosophical tradition of Ni…
Philosophy on fieldwork case studies in anthropological analysis
How do we teach analysis in anthropology and other field-based sciences? How can we engage analytically and interrogatively with philosophical ideas and concepts in our fieldwork? And how can students learn to engage critical ideas from philosophy to better understand the worlds they study? Philosophy on Fieldwork provides "show-don't-tell" answers to these questions. In twenty-six "master class" chapters, philosophy meets anthropological critiqu…
Philosophy on Fieldwork
"How do we teach analysis in anthropology and other field-based sciences? How can we engage analytically and interrogatively with philosophical ideas and concepts in our fieldwork? And how can students learn to engage critical ideas from philosophy to better understand the worlds they study? Philosophy on Fieldwork provides "show-don't-tell" answers to these questions. In twenty-six "master class" chapters, philosophy meets anthropological critiq…
Anthropology and Philosophy
The present book is no ordinary anthology, but rather a workroom in which anthropologists and philosophers initiate a dialogue on trust and hope, two important topics for both fields of study. The book combines work between scholars from different universities in the U.S. and Denmark. Thus, besides bringing the two disciplines in dialogue, it also cuts across differences in national contexts and academic style. The interdisciplinary efforts of th…
We Humans. Epochal Consciousness and Responsibility in the ‘Anthropocene’
No abstract
Selma’s response
Analyzing an episode from a family story in World War II, this paper suggests introducing the concept of responsiveness in philosophical anthropology and anthropology of ethics. It does so by drawing on Heidegger’s hermeneutics of Dasein and Waldenfels’ responsive phenomenology
Toward a new humanism
In this introduction to the special section, we revisit the case of humanism, including some challenges to its outworn and problematic metaphysical assumptions. We suggest that a new kind of humanism is demanded despite the many calls that humanism, of any form, should be jettisoned. The new humanism we propose rests on an ethnographically based philosophical anthropology which keeps in mind its reference to humankind while acknowledging the inde…
Moral Engines
In the past fifteen years, there has been a virtual explosion of anthropological literature arguing that morality should be considered central to human practice. Out of this explosion new and invigorating conversations have emerged between anthropologists and philosophers. Moral Engines: Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life includes essays from some of the foremost voices in the anthropology of morality, offering unique interdisciplinary co…
Moral Engines
Moral Engines
Approaching Philosophical Anthropology
The paper defends the view that 'philosophical anthropology' denotes a discourse in philosophy that deals with a subject matter - the human being and the question of its 'nature' - that is different in kind from all other subjects. Reminding Raimundus Lullus, F.J.W. Schelling and Helmuth Plessner, this claim and its ontological as well as epistemological implications are outlined, arguing that we are in need of an existential approach in order to…
Finite but Unbounded
World-leading anthropologists and philosophers pursue the perplexing question fundamental to both disciplines: What is it to think of ourselves as human? A common theme is the open-ended and context-dependent nature of our notion of the human, one upshot of which is that perplexities over that notion can only be dealt with in a piecemeal fashion, and in relation to concrete real-life circumstances. Philosophical anthropology, understood as the ex…
I have seen Königsberg burning
It is December 1944 in East Prussia, and a German mother with the four youngest of her 13 children is fleeing from the Red Army. Some 30 years later one of her sons talks about his memories, using the phrase: 'I have seen Königsberg burning' - what a sentence. The city of Immanuel Kant, the most important philosopher of the German Enlightenment and an icon in human moral thought, is burning down. But then again, is it legitimate to take this symb…
Toward a new humanism
In this introduction to the special section, we revisit the case of humanism, including some challenges to its outworn and problematic metaphysical assumptions. We suggest that a new kind of humanism is demanded despite the many calls that humanism, of any form, should be jettisoned. The new humanism we propose rests on an ethnographically based philosophical anthropology which keeps in mind its reference to humankind while acknowledging the inde…
I have seen Königsberg burning
It is December 1944 in East Prussia, and a German mother with the four youngest of her 13 children is fleeing from the Red Army. Some 30 years later one of her sons talks about his memories, using the phrase: 'I have seen Königsberg burning' - what a sentence. The city of Immanuel Kant, the most important philosopher of the German Enlightenment and an icon in human moral thought, is burning down. But then again, is it legitimate to take this symb…
Anthropology and Philosophy
The present book is no ordinary anthology, but rather a workroom in which anthropologists and philosophers initiate a dialogue on trust and hope, two important topics for both fields of study. The book combines work between scholars from different universities in the U.S. and Denmark. Thus, besides bringing the two disciplines in dialogue, it also cuts across differences in national contexts and academic style. The interdisciplinary efforts of th…
Selma’s response
Analyzing an episode from a family story in World War II, this paper suggests introducing the concept of responsiveness in philosophical anthropology and anthropology of ethics. It does so by drawing on Heidegger’s hermeneutics of Dasein and Waldenfels’ responsive phenomenology
I have seen Königsberg burning
It is December 1944 in East Prussia, and a German mother with the four youngest of her 13 children is fleeing from the Red Army. Some 30 years later one of her sons talks about his memories, using the phrase: 'I have seen Königsberg burning' - what a sentence. The city of Immanuel Kant, the most important philosopher of the German Enlightenment and an icon in human moral thought, is burning down. But then again, is it legitimate to take this symb…
Moral Engines
In the past fifteen years, there has been a virtual explosion of anthropological literature arguing that morality should be considered central to human practice. Out of this explosion new and invigorating conversations have emerged between anthropologists and philosophers. Moral Engines: Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life includes essays from some of the foremost voices in the anthropology of morality, offering unique interdisciplinary co…
Moral Engines
Moral Engines
Approaching Philosophical Anthropology
The paper defends the view that 'philosophical anthropology' denotes a discourse in philosophy that deals with a subject matter - the human being and the question of its 'nature' - that is different in kind from all other subjects. Reminding Raimundus Lullus, F.J.W. Schelling and Helmuth Plessner, this claim and its ontological as well as epistemological implications are outlined, arguing that we are in need of an existential approach in order to…
Finite but Unbounded
World-leading anthropologists and philosophers pursue the perplexing question fundamental to both disciplines: What is it to think of ourselves as human? A common theme is the open-ended and context-dependent nature of our notion of the human, one upshot of which is that perplexities over that notion can only be dealt with in a piecemeal fashion, and in relation to concrete real-life circumstances. Philosophical anthropology, understood as the ex…
Selma’s response
Analyzing an episode from a family story in World War II, this paper suggests introducing the concept of responsiveness in philosophical anthropology and anthropology of ethics. It does so by drawing on Heidegger’s hermeneutics of Dasein and Waldenfels’ responsive phenomenology
Toward a new humanism
In this introduction to the special section, we revisit the case of humanism, including some challenges to its outworn and problematic metaphysical assumptions. We suggest that a new kind of humanism is demanded despite the many calls that humanism, of any form, should be jettisoned. The new humanism we propose rests on an ethnographically based philosophical anthropology which keeps in mind its reference to humankind while acknowledging the inde…
We Humans. Epochal Consciousness and Responsibility in the ‘Anthropocene’
No abstract
Philosophy on Fieldwork
"How do we teach analysis in anthropology and other field-based sciences? How can we engage analytically and interrogatively with philosophical ideas and concepts in our fieldwork? And how can students learn to engage critical ideas from philosophy to better understand the worlds they study? Philosophy on Fieldwork provides "show-don't-tell" answers to these questions. In twenty-six "master class" chapters, philosophy meets anthropological critiq…
Anthropology and Philosophy
The present book is no ordinary anthology, but rather a workroom in which anthropologists and philosophers initiate a dialogue on trust and hope, two important topics for both fields of study. The book combines work between scholars from different universities in the U.S. and Denmark. Thus, besides bringing the two disciplines in dialogue, it also cuts across differences in national contexts and academic style. The interdisciplinary efforts of th…
Philosophy on fieldwork case studies in anthropological analysis
How do we teach analysis in anthropology and other field-based sciences? How can we engage analytically and interrogatively with philosophical ideas and concepts in our fieldwork? And how can students learn to engage critical ideas from philosophy to better understand the worlds they study? Philosophy on Fieldwork provides "show-don't-tell" answers to these questions. In twenty-six "master class" chapters, philosophy meets anthropological critiqu…
Care and resentment. An essay on moral temporality
Whereas caring is commonly perceived as a moral virtue or a socially beneficial ethical practice, resentment appears to represent its opposite. Advocates of care ethics have vehemently criticized the abstract and aloof nature of traditional ethical theories and argue that care ethics offers a perspective from which we may appreciate interpersonal sensitivity and responsiveness to individuals, per se. Following in the philosophical tradition of Ni…
Pinxten, Rik
Sociology (12 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works)