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Adolf Portmann: the expressive function of technique

Tolone, Oreste
2012
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1825-5167
http://hdl.handle.net/10077/7298
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This essay focuses on the topic of technique in the thought of the well-known biologist, zoologist and anthropologist Adolf Portmann (1897-1982). First of all I’ll try to understand the biological and anthropological roots, that make a naturally-artificial (namely technical) being of a man. Then I’ll examine what kind of role and weight Portmann assignes to the technique, underlining risks and chances, closely linked to it, and showing the essentially expressive and self-expressive function of it. Finally I’ll specify the relationship between the development of technique in our society and the loss of the primary world: the aesthetic world of imagination.
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Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics
XIV (2012) 1
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  • Self-presentation

  • isomorphism

  • ego-inflation

  • biotechnology

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EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
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Oreste Tolone, "Adolf Portmann: the expressive function of technique", in: Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics, XIV (2012) 1, pp. 230-243
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