englischFreedom is obviously an important value in people's lives. After all, freedom means that people can decide for themselves what kind of life they want to lead. However, the inherent paradox of freedom is that it can only be guaranteed if it is also subject to restrictions. The function of the [...]

englischThe original essays in this volume continue the collective exploration of the texts attributed to Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans in the Hellenistic and Imperial times, initiated in the same series in 2021. The topics covered in these largely understudied texts written by unknown authors [...]

englisch„Turn of the times" is the key term for understanding the present. The Russian war of aggression on Ukraine has led to the destruction of the European peace order. The long-held hope has been shattered that interstate conflicts can be settled without the use of force through negotiation and [...]

englischThe book enters the debate on the relationship between aesthetics and politics with an original and comprehensive theory. As Fransoni makes clear, a political theory is not a theory of politics, but a theory that deals with things, in this case art, in order to read them in the light of the [...]

englischThis book is a study of a people and a place and various performances in a post-conflict milieu that was once known as the state of Yugoslavia. A war between three militaries between 1991–95 was ended with the Dayton Peace Accords (DPA) and whilst the fighting stopped, the grievances [...]

englischIn this book, Filimon Peonidis gathers one unpublished and seven published essays that he wrote between 1997 and 2021. The first three refer to the early history of freedom of expression focusing on the work of James and John Stuart Mill and its possible significance in a contemporary [...]

englischIn 1667, Johann Amos Comenius wrote the memorandum Angelus Pacis against the backdrop of Anglo-Dutch peace negotiations in Breda. Unlike his pedagogical works, this writing has received little attention to date, even though Comenius' comments on peace ethics seem more relevant than ever [...]

englischDo you sometimes think the world could be a better place? Do you think that hunger, war, poverty and misery should be eliminated? The signs pointing to the world getting better are currently not good. War is raging in Ukraine, the pandemic remains prevalent, the first consequences of global [...]

englischDigitization has extensive effects on various areas of life in society and individuals. The book examines these impacts from a socio-philosophical point of view and considers issues of identity, knowledge, communication, and power in the context of digitization. It also addresses the impact [...]

englischThe new volume contains an editorial part, an interpretative part and an informative part. An edition of the correspondence between the Hegel student Heinrich Gustav Hotho and Varnhagen von Ense deals with the editing of the "Jahrbücher für wissenschaftliche Kritik" (H. Schneider and W. [...]

englischThe most important and extensive of Bernard Bolzano’s (1781–1848) correspondences is the one with his student and friend Michael Josef Fesl (1788–1864) which comprises altogether some 730 letters. Due to the great number of letters, starting with 1831, only Bolzano’s contributions are [...]

englischThe relationship between religion, social structures and political institutions has always played a fundamental role in human societies. This collection of essays aims to explore possible ways in which philosophical conceptualizations of god, the gods, and the divine in the ancient world [...]

englischBased on intensive archival research, Teichler succeeds in providing an overall account of the international sports policy of the "Third Reich" with the spectacular climax of the 1936 Olympic Games. The thematic radius is broad: from the successes of the Mercedes Benz "Silver Arrows" and the [...]

englischThe most important and extensive of Bernard Bolzano’s (1781–1848) correspondences is the one with his student and friend Michael Josef Fesl (1788–1864) which comprises altogether some 730 letters. Due to the great number of letters, starting with 1831, only Bolzano’s contributions are [...]

englischDuring 403–399 a fierce political contest was going on between the king of Sparta Pausanias and Lysander, in which Athens was part of the stakes. I examine the possibility that Socrates became entangled in the backlash of this contest. As Xenophon testifies in Memorabilia, during the trial [...]

englischThe context in which the author places the concept of substantial morality (Sittlichkeit) is the history of Athens from about 490 to 430 B.C. This facilitates the understanding of a (political) way of life that is quite foreign to us in modern times. This also makes the concept of modern [...]

englischSources of power in political processes are often reduced to the dualism of ‘hard’ and ‘soft’. Sport, in both its practise and delivery might also evidence such characteristics as it is used to achieve political outcomes. The soft route is usually administered more ‘artfully’ in its attempt [...]

englischThe same world - and yet everything is different. This could be a succinct formula for what the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben seeks to expose in his studies: categories of a new way of thinking, of a different use and form-of-life, in which natural life cannot be separated from social [...]

englischThis book provides an insightful view in the philosophical foundation of one the most crucial global practices, namely humanitarian action, in view of current developments in international ethics. Indeed, in a globalized world, the suffering of many people has become more tangible than ever, [...]

englischSeubert’s book analyses the digital revolution by transcending euphoria and fears of the apocalypse. He conceives digitalisation as an all-encompassing media change on a similar level to the invention of printing books and thus incisively and profoundly interprets the transformations in [...]

englischBetween 1805 and 1819, the period in which he worked as a professor and a student priest in Prague, Bernard Bolzano gave almost 680 speeches on Sundays and religious holidays. In this book, Künne describes the form these orations took and their biblical points of departure. He compares the [...]

englischThe sixteen essays in this Festschrift, presented to Eckart Schütrumpf by his friends and colleagues, pay tribute to his influential work. The variety of topics – as well as the linguistic diversity (English, German, and Italian) – reflects the wide scope of Schütrumpf’s research interests. [...]

englischGermany’s Basic Law has been in force for seventy years; the Weimar Constitution is 100 years old. Defending and expanding fundamental rights and freedoms have characterised 100 years of radical democratic and liberal leftist politics. In light of neo-fascism and anti-Semitism, played down [...]

Jetzt ist sie in aller Munde: Die Klima- und Umweltkatastrophe! Dabei stimmt seit Jahrhunderten etwas Grundlegendes nicht am Umgang des Menschen mit seinem Planeten. Naturwissenschaftliche Einzelkenntnisse allein helfen uns nicht weiter, an dieser scheinbar ausweglosen Situation etwas zu ändern. [...]

Die Welt des sich derzeit offensichtlich zu Tode siegenden Kapitalismus lebt in vielen Teufelskreisen. Innerhalb der Wirtschaft etwa die Schuldenfalle. Die wird für viele durch den Sozialabbau – der mit „Reformen“ getarnt wird - nur noch unentrinnbarer. Die Alternative zur so genannten „freien“ [...]

englischEric Voegelin’s interpretation of the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche constitutes an important part of Voegelins critique of modernity; the development of Voegelin’s thought is persued here in order to explain his interpretation of Nietzsche. The book is structured in three parts: 1) the early [...]

Die mündliche Tradition von Nias begann vor ca. 600 Jahren mit der Einwanderung einer kleinen Gruppe von der Westküste Sumatras nach Südnias. Die Physiognomie der Bewohner weist oft chinesische Züge auf. Die mündliche Tradition berichtet vom Beginn der Ahnenfiguren (adu) und von der Ahnenverehrung [...]