Mit dieser Edition wird erstmals ein Vorlesungszyklus aus Helmuth Plessners wissenschaftlichem Nachla� der �ffentlichkeit zug�nglich gemacht. Das klar und �bersichtlich gegliederte Kolleg "Elemente der Metaphysik" pr�sentiert in leicht verst�ndlicher Sprache und gut nachvollziehbarer Gedankenentfaltung die Grundz�ge von Plessners Anthropologie, die dieser in seinem nur schwer rezipierbaren Hauptwerk, den "Stufen des Organischen und der Mensch" von 1928, entwickelt hatte, und stellt sie in einen umfassenden philosophischen Kontext. Die Vorlesung umfa�t drei Hauptteile: Im 1. Teil, der "Metaphysik des Bewu�tseins", zeigt Plessner, da� der klassische bewu�tseinsphilosophische Ansatz zur Beantwortung zentraler metaphysischer Probleme nicht in der Lage ist. Die entscheidende Frage nach dem Sein des Bewu�tseins ist - wie Plessner nachweist - im Rahmen der Bewu�tseinsproblematik, wie sie von der neuzeitlichen Philosophie seit Descartes entfaltet wurde, nicht zu beantworten. Die Bewu�tseinsphilosophie mu� daher - so Plessners Grundthese - durch einen lebensphilosophischen Ansatz �berwunden werden. Dieser �bergang zur Problematik des Lebens und die breite Ausf�hrung des neuen philosophischen Zugriffs steht im Mittelpunkt des 2. Teils ("Metaphysik des Lebens"). Plessner unternimmt hier vor allem den Versuch, das Wesen des Lebens durch das Verh�ltnis des K�rpers zu seiner Grenze zu bestimmen und h�lt fest, da� solche K�rper, die ihre Grenzen realisiert haben, "Positionali�t" besitzen. Dieser Begriff der Positionalit�t wird zum Zentralbegriff von Plessners Biophilosophie, die im Fortgang dieses Teils der Vorlesung ausf�hrlich dargestellt wird. Im Zentrum der Darlegung, die Plessner im engen, kritischen Kontakt mit der biologischen Forschung h�lt, steht u.a. die Beziehung von Organismus und Umwelt, die Organisationsformen des Lebens (Pflanze und Tier), die Struktur der tierischen Umwelt, die Bestimmung des Bewu�tseins, das Verh�ltnis von Bewu�tsein und k�rperlichem Sein und das Problem des Ged�chtnisses. Im abschlie�enden 3. Teil ("Der Mensch") skizziert Plessner die Grundz�ge seiner philosophischen Anthropologie, wobei er den Menschen als dasjenige Lebewesen bestimmt, das - in Abhebung vom Tier, dem eine zentrische Organisationsform zukommt - eine "exzentrische Positionalit�t" besitzt, und das in einem dreifachen Bezug zur Au�enwelt, zur Innenwelt und zur Mitwelt steht. Die besondere Bedeutung dieser Vorlesung liegt einerseits in ihrem Charakter als leicht nachvollziehbare Hinf�hrung zu Plessners Philosophie des Lebendigen. Andererseits enth�lt sie neue Inhalte - insbesondere im 1. und 2. Teil - und tr�gt dadurch zur Erweiterung unserer Kenntnis von Plessners Philosophie bei.

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