Die Demut wird gegenwärtig entweder als ein verstaubtes Erbe des Christentums wahrgenommen oder vermehrt als ein säkulares „Modewort“ verstanden, das als mahnender Aufruf für die Rückgewinnung eines verlorenen Maßes zum Einsatz kommt. Jonas Puchta unternimmt den Versuch, unter Berücksichtigung der [...]

englischThe aesthetic concept of atmosphere places human sensitivities under various natural and cultural conditions in the foreground of aesthetic consideration. As the first monograph to integrate an intercultural perspective into this field, “Atmosphären-Ästhetik: Die Verflochtenheit von Natur, [...]

englischThis volume offers a fascinating journey through different regions of the history of ideas, ranging from the 18th to the 20th century, and brings together international contributions in English, French and German. With 21 articles ranging from the (German and Scottish) Enlightenment to G. W. [...]

englischThe volume Beiträge zur Phänomenologie des Rechts (Contributions to the Phenomenology of Law) brings together contributions that open up access to fundamental themes and areas of Jan Schapp's life's work. The authors take up jurisprudential, legal-philosophical, historical-philosophical and [...]

englischIn an age of complex crises and problems, the question arises if our approach to our life-world, and our way to be, does actually fit to our existence in the right measure. In this book, it will be shown that Martin Heidegger already thought about the relation of measure and being throughout [...]

englischTouch is important. As we have learned all too well during the recent period of pandemic-induced ‘social distancing’, people need to touch and be touched. But what is the phenomenon we call ‘touch’ in all its depth of meaning?

Touch is not simply physical and instrumental; it is closely [...]

englischThe correspondence between the phenomenologist Ludwig Klages (1872–1956) and the Jewish neurologist and psychoanalyst Friedrich S. Rothschild (1899–1995) spanned the Weimar Republic, the Nazi era and the 1950s and relates to a field in which the natural sciences, neurology and the humanities [...]

englischThe concept of crisis is ancient, but its global and technological dimension is novel. Understanding these manifestations is vital for the contemporary world, and this book contributes to facing this challenge by drawing on diverse phenomenological perspectives.

Hernán Inverso is Marie [...]

englischTo understand mysticism as pure desire is to grasp its criteriological character as the suspension of any fulfilment - including "God" - by an object. It is thus desire as immanently living self-desire, whereby not only the tradition of negative theology since the early days of Christianity [...]

'Das Begräbnis des Philosophen' ist eine erzählerische Meditation über das letzte Jahr im Leben eines Philosophen, seine Zeit am Husserl-Archiv in Leuven, den Austausch mit Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty oder Martin Heidegger, seinen eigenen Werdegang und Abschied. Wie die Philosophie nicht [...]

In dieser Analyse, die das Denken von Meister Eckhart und Michel Henry berücksichtigt, wird Gott als originäre Lebenswirklichkeit verstanden. Radikal phänomenologisch bedeutet dies die Selbsthervorbringung des ur-anfänglichen Lebens in einer „Sohnschaft“, welche die Empfängnis des absoluten Lebens [...]

englischUsing the phenomenological methods of the founder, E. Husserl, and phenomenology’s most influential reformer, M. Heidegger, the first part of the book develops a new interpretation of the birth of philosophy: It was the centre of a comprehensive intellectual awakening among the ancient [...]

Dieses Buch beschreibt die Geschichte der Methodik der Textinterpretation von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert und ist leistet gleichzeitig einen innovativen Beitrag zum besseren Verständnis des Verhältnisses von russischer Geistesgeschichte, früher Phänomenologie und analytischer [...]

englischThe question of who or what man is, is posed here with a view to the how: How are we there, how does human existence emerge and unfold in reference and encounter? How are there telos and archè, goal and reason in life? With Heidegger's relational ontology, the peculiarity of being proves to [...]

englischThe volume offers the first systematic discussion of Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations. Beginning with a commentary on the text of the five Meditations, the essays published here examine and clarify some of the most important concepts of Husserl’s philosophy: intentionality, synthesis, [...]