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. [...]

englischVolume 11 of Eugen Fink’s ‘Collected Works’ brings together Fink's contributions on ancient philosophy since the 1940s: three main texts—the lecture on the ‘Basic Questions of Ancient Philosophy’ (winter semester 1947/48), the seminar on the ‘Principle of Contradiction’ (winter semester [...]

englischAttempts to write a history of ideas of critical theory often resemble the procedure within a Cartesian coordinate system. Starting from the aim of determining a paradigmatic theoretical core, the philosophies considered essential are distributed along the directional axes and then the [...]

Der Band widmet sich dem Verhältnis von Melancholie und Empathie aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive. Er ist inspiriert von Georgi Gospodinovs Roman »Physik der Schwermut«, dessen Protagonist in der (post)modernen bulgarischen Gesellschaft eine tiefe Deprimiertheit und zugleich Mitgefühl mit [...]

englischThis book offers a phenomenologically informed reading of some fundamental positions of the philosophical tradition. Its objective is not that of giving an exhaustive account of the thinking of any single philosopher, much less of the trajectory of philosophy as a whole. rather, the aim is [...]

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, [...]

Das Buch bringt philosophische (bes. Heidegger und Merleau-Ponty) und künstlerische Positionen (Rilke, Ponge, Cézanne, Morandi u.a.) miteinander ins Gespräch und beleuchtet die Frage, ob es für den Menschen notwendig ist, den Dingen in ihrer Einzigkeit zu begegnen. Entscheidend ist die Beobachtung, [...]

englischThis book aims at developing a differential understanding of the figure of the earth (Kūn) in the Yi Jing (Book of Changes) in critical contrast to the traditional interpretation of this sign. Its approach to Kūn is facilitated by a transversal reading, i.e. comparative use of [...]

Am Beispiel der gegenwärtigen Debatte um die Synthetische Biologie und anhand metapherntheoretischer Überlegungen im Anschluss an Black, Ricœur und Blumenberg soll die Frage „Was ist Leben?“ als ein konkretes Beispiel eines hermeneutischen „Streits um die Wahrheit“, der in und mit Metaphern geführt [...]

englischThis anthology offers the German audience for the first time selected texts by Spanish and Hispano-American philosophers who have taken up Husserlian phenomenology and creatively integrated it into their own thinking. The selected texts bear witness to an intercultural dialogue that is of [...]

englischOne of Eugen Fink's most important texts is "Oasis of Happiness. Thoughts on an Ontology of Play". Against the background of the interest in the phenomenon of play in philosophy and the social and cultural sciences, the Freiburg philosopher develops in this book an independent and innovative [...]

englischUte Gahlings opens up the professional field of philosophical practice with its various forms of activity such as consolation and life orientation, education and personality development as well as political and social commitment. On the basis of concrete situations in philosophical practice, [...]

englischThe importance of Husserl’s phenomenology for philosophy and science remains undisputed. The undoubtedly far-reaching and profound history of impact is due to he fact that the potential of phenomenological reflektion was not exhausted with Husserl’s transcendental philosophising. This is [...]

englischThis study is intended to reveal new perspectives on the work of Ludwig Klages and, at the same time, to contribute to the prehistory of new phenomenology as one of the most important movements in contemporary philosophy. The book relates the basic problems of Klages’ philosophy to [...]

englischSport is one of the most popular leisure activities in the world. Why is this so? The leading thesis of the book is: Because sport regularly produces - mostly positively evaluated - situations of affective involvement. It is the felt-bodily experiences structurally inherent in sport to which [...]

englischPatočka's reflections on Europe are an after-thought in the true sense of the word: they sketch out an idea of Europe after its end - without being a lament about decay and decline. On the contrary, his sketches of the beginning and end of Europe, of its special role in history and as [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

Wer dem religiösen Denken im Islam gerecht werden will, muss sich auf verflochtene Wege und Umwege der Denktraditionen begeben, dialogisch, kontrovers und dekonstruktiv. Denn der Islam zeigt sich als eine Verflechtung der Religion und Philosophie, des Glaubens und Denkens, des Monotheismus und [...]

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 [...]

englischAfter the death of Hermann Schmitz, this book aims to initiate a critical appreciation of New Phenomenology—even beyond a narrower philosophical context. On the one hand, it focuses on perspectives which, starting from the neo-phenomenological approach, lead beyond already existing theories. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

englischTaking life as the occasion for meditation allows meditation itself to become pure life. Such practice is not bound to any theory but shows in an exemplary way that ultimately every action rests in an inner practice. This linguistic simplicity is intended to correspond to fundamental [...]

englischWhat does feeling mean? Does it differ depending on the linguistic cultures in which one grows up, and if so, to what extent? This book explores the different forms of sensation and feeling formation that can be observed within the word field ki (気). Ki is often translated into German with [...]

englischRicœur's philosophy can be understood in the context of the 20th century as a response to this particularly violent period. At its core is the conviction that a hermeneutically founded anthropology can make it possible to understand why there is an integral connection between existence 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 [...]