Project
The Idea of Humanity and the Challenge of Cultural Diversity
Who and what we are as humans have always been controversial questions.
Publication
The patho-analysis of existence
Van Haute, Philippe and Desmond Painter. 2017. The patho-analysis of existence (in final stage of publication)
Project
On Social Meaning – Ernst Cassirer, Cornelius Castoriadis and Philosophical-Rhetorical Anthropology
In rhetorical theory, the question of how meaning is produced has traditionally been dealt with in terms of the intentions of the orator to influence her or his audience through speech.
Project
Is there a future for the project of a clinical anthropology (‘patho-analysis of existence’)
Is it still possible and meaningful, as traditional psychoanalytic theory implies, to understand the relation between psychopathology and (philosophical) anthropology in a positive and structural way?
