H. PLESSNER’S HERMENEUTICS OF PHYSICALITY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF NON-VERBAL PRACTICES OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION

Abstract

The paper is devoted to certain aspects of Helmut Plessner’s philosophical and anthropological theory of laughter and crying in the context of the development of non-verbal practices of human communication. The hermeneutic potential of his hermeneutic study about forms of human expressiveness is revealed, in which the philosopher offers his own vision of hermeneutics, first, as a hermeneutic of physicality.