History of Western Philosophy

This is the first monograph devoted to the theology of the Epinomis. It argues that the work offers a revised Platonic conception of the divine bet...

Die Untersuchung setzt sich zum Ziel, die kantische Konzeption des Ich bzw. des Selbstbewusstseins in ihrer spezifisch erkenntnistheoretischen Bede...

This book explores how states and traits of anxiety are reflected in the style and structure of certain works by three key figures of modern Scand...

This volume looks to core ideas defining Goethes work and his influence on his contemporaries and inheritors. Contributions to this volume explore ...

Philosophic attention shifted after Hegel from Kants emphasis on sensibility to criticism and analyses of the fine arts. The arts themselves seemed...

Our understanding of science, mathematics, and medicine today can be deeply enriched by studying the historical roots of these areas of inquiry in ...

Life Configurations focuses on the analysis and reflection on the various forms in which human beings imagine, design, conjecture, and plan their b...

Origen has been always studied as a theologian and too much credit has been given to Eusebius implausible hagiography of him. This book explores wh...

Schon kurz nach seiner erzwungenen Emigration, im Jahre 1934, konnte der protestantische Theologe und Philosoph Paul Tillich (18861965), der zuvor ...

Since the Kierkegaard Studies Monograph Series (KSMS) was first published in 1997, it has served as the authoritative book series in the field. Sta...

Die Begriffe «Vorstellung, Denken, Sprache» umreißen durchgehende Themen der Philosophie Karl Leonhard Reinholds. Steht «Vorstellung» zentral für R...

In accordance with the purpose of the series Traditio Praesocratica, the present volume, the first in the series, contains the most complete collec...

The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270 BCE), though often despised for his materialism, hedonism, and denial of the immortality of the sou...

This volume examines the largely overlooked aesthetic writings of Karl Leonhard Reinhold before 1790, with which he aimed to anticipate Kants criti...

This book provides a re-assessment of Kropotkin's political thought and suggests that the 'classical' tradition which has provided a lens for the d...

In seiner Rechtslehre formuliert Kant das allgemeine Rechtsgesetz als obersten Grundsatz des Rechts. Es dient als ein überpositives Kriterium dafür...

First published in 1844, Søren Kierkegaards concise treatise identifiedlong before Freudanxiety as a profound human condition, portraying human exi...

Our understanding of CS Peirce, and his semiotics, is largely influenced by a twentieth century perspective that prioritizes the sign as a cultura...

Die leitende These der Untersuchung lautet, dass der von Berkeley inaugurierte und uneingeschränkt verteidigte Idealismus bei Kant und Schopenhaue...

Was macht das Besondere der menschlichen Lebensform aus? Wie können wir es verstehen, dass unsere Art wie alle anderen natürlich evolviert ist und ...

The new series of Ideen&Argumente subscribes to the ideal of a pluralist and open culture of argument and debate and presents well-produced vol...

This textbook includes important texts by Hartmann, some of them virtually inaccessible before, with a concise introduction to the central themes i...

In commemoration of Husserls many years of teaching and research in Göttingen, the Göttingen Academy of Science staged an international symposium i...

Boethius is largely underrated in the history of Western thought. Scholarship often regarded him and his era Late Antiquity as mere intermediaries...

Scheint die Sache aussichtslos, wird das Prinzip Hoffnung beschworen. Dessen Urheber, Ernst Bloch, war allerdings nicht ins Scheitern, sondern ins ...

The enigmatic relation between religion and science still presents a challenge to European societies and to ideas about what it means to be modern....

Bewusstsein, Außenwelt und Sprache bilden eine untrennbare Einheit in der Frage nach dem Sinn und der Bedeutung sprachlicher Ausdrücke. Zeichen und...

Seit einem Paradigmenwechsel in Griechenland um 400 v. Chr. wird der Mensch als Produkt der Zusammensetzung von Körper und Seele verstanden. Zwisch...

Kants kritischer Philosophie wird bis heute von prominenter Seite der Vorwurf gemacht, sie unterstelle ein im Kern subjektivistisch-monologisches I...

Ausgehend von Nietzsches Medienkritik an der zeitgenössischen Massenpresse, ihrer Mitverantwortung für die Vermittelmäßigkeit moderner Kultur, Mein...

Das Verhältnis von Lebenswelt und Wissenschaft befindet sich mit ungewissem Ausgang in stetiger Bewegung. In diesem Prozess ist das treibende Eleme...

The interest in Andronikos Kallistos, a leading personality among the Greek émigrés who participated in Italian Humanism, arose at the end of the n...

Theoretically sophisticated and meticulously situated at the fraught scene of reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples in conte...

The series, founded in 1970, publishes works which either combine studies in the history of philosophy with a systematic approach or bring together...