Line Ryberg Ingerslev

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By investigating the human capacity of expression in a socio-political perspective the project aims at giving a philosophical as well a practical account of the role played by conflict in relation to the understanding of the self. The governing thesis claims that the human self-relation, when considered an antagonistic structure, implies conflict. This thesis is supported by the philosophical anthropology of the German philosopher Helmuth Plessner. Man, according to Plessner, both is body and has a body. In this double self-relation conflict is already implied as an antagonistic relation toward oneself: a human being must express himself and must relate to the outside world in order to understand himself. There is no existential self-harmony or fixed self-identity. On a struggle for meaning the self-understanding, being intimately linked to conflict, is won by expressivity. The model of conflictual self-understanding is pursued on a level of sociality as well: Because expressivity is both biologically and culturally understood it enables a politico-anthropological analysis of the normative potential of expressivity itself. The gap between a bio-philosophical analysis of the capacity of expression on the one hand, and the exploration into a normative field of the intersubjective ability to live a life on the other, will be investigated further. The interrelation between the self-relation coming into being as autonomy and the conflict of expression is pursued practically by investigating the role played by conflict in children's play and in studies of expressivity in the developmental psychology.

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Filosofisk antropologi, fænomenologi, naturfilosofi, socialfilosofi

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