El concepto de distanciamiento en la antropología filosófica del siglo XX: Ortega, Blumenberg y Jonas

Abstract

In this paper we will expose a central concept of the 20th century philosophical anthropology, the concept of distancing. We will try to show its biological and anthropological basis, as well as its interpretation from some of the most important philosophers of the past century. In the first place, and in greater depth, we will review Ortega y Gasset´s differents approaches to this idea, with special emphasis on its conception of self-absorption. After contemplating the influence of authors like Bergson and Scheler, we will turn in a second moment to analize the modulations of this concept of distancing in Hans Jonas and his thesis about Homo pictor; and also in Hans Blumenberg where distance appears as the core of the human condition.