In Political Anthropology (originally published in 1931 as Macht und menschliche Natur ), Helmuth Plessner considers whether politics--conceived as the struggle for power between groups, nations, and states--belongs to the essence of the human.
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Building on and complementing ideas from his Levels of the Organic and the Human (1928), Plessner proposes a genealogy of Political life and outlines an anthropological foundation of the political.
In Political Anthropology (originally published in 1931 as Macht und menschliche Natur ), Helmuth Plessner considers whether politics--conceived as the struggle for power between groups, nations, and states--belongs to the essence of the human