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Main description: Den Menschen als natürliches Kulturwesen zu verstehen ist eine klassische Option des philosophischen Denkens. Sie läuft leicht Gefahr, zum Reduktionismus zu werden. Ihre epistemische Grenze und ihr praktisches Interesse muss darum auch heute noch sorgfältig ref…
Main description: This study breaks new ground on the question of the existence of God. It innovatively combines biblical scholarship with an analysis of existence drawn from the writings of the philosopher Gottlob Frege. It shows that the strength of Frege's approach is its emp…
Main description: This study examines the problematic practice of authorship in the works of Danish philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard, whose infamous and invasive literary and stylistic idiosyncrasies must enter into any interpretation- philosophical, theological, or …
Kants Theorie der Erfahrung
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Wie sind schrittweise Fortschritte im Ganzen der dem Menschen möglichen Erfahrung möglich? Verlangt diese Frage eine metaphysische, eine fundamental-erkenntnistheoretische oder eine wissenschaftstheoretische Antwort? Das Hauptziel von Kants Theorie der Erfahrung ist zu zeigen, d…
How can we make the critical potential of Hegelian philosophy understandable from a historical perspective? To answer this question, this study retraces Hegel’s transformation from his writings about the "work of the Republicans for the common good" (1795)to the "work of the con…
Biographical note: Hans-Peter Krüger, Universität Potsdam. Biographical note: Hans-Peter Krüger, University ofPotsdam, Germany. How can we make the critical potential of Hegelian philosophy understandable from a historical perspective? To answer this question, this study retra…
Hegel and Foucault are typically represented in the literature as antipodes, but they both raise the question of the historicity of knowledge. This study elaborates this theme using a comparison of the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Archeology of Knowledge. It reveals how their…
The logical question is a central theme of 19th century philosophy. The marginal reception accorded to Hegel's subjective logic stands in stark contrast to its claim of revitalizing the "fossilized material" of classical logic. This study contextualizes subjective logic in terms…
In the 19th century, the history of philosophy becomes the history of a particular science. Modern philosophical historiography is an ambivalent project. On the one hand, we find an affirmative concept of Bildung through tradition and historical insight; on the other, there aris…
Fichtes Vernunftrechtslehre zählt zu den überzeugendsten Versuchen philosophischer Rechtsbegründung überhaupt. Im Ausgang von der Frage, wie der Freiheitsanspruch der Subjektivität auch unter Bedingungen der Endlichkeit gewahrt werden kann, entwickelt Fichte ein Konzept vom Rech…
Die Konzepte von Kritik und Transformation im Denken Nietzsches und deren Bedeutung für heutige kritische Philosophien und Bewegungen sind das Thema der Beiträge dieses Bandes. Ist seine Kritik emanzipatorisch, aristokratisch, reaktionär, liberal, humanistisch, posthumanistisch?…
Schmidt examines the reception of Nietzsche's Will to Power by major 20th century authors (including Kafka, Mann, and Musil) and engages in a source-based critique of Nietzsche's ideas. Considering Nietzsche's work in its historical context, its ideological and politically preju…
The last posthumous manuscripts from 1888 bear witness to an enormous stylistic and intellectual radicalization. The Antichrist purports to be a total "reevaluation of all values." In Ecce homo, Nietzsche explores the genealogy of his own thinking, opening up new dimensions of s…
Biographical note: Vinod Acharya, Seattle University, USA. The author presents a new existential interpretation of Nietzsche. He argues that Nietzsche's approach, especially in his mature works, is to make the typical existential position foundational, and then to develop to th…
Biographical note: Martine Prange, Leiden University, Netherlands. Most of Nietzsche's works are concerned with the present state and future of European culture and humanity, thereby resisting the "nationalist nonsense." Prange analyzes the development of his ideal of European …
The volume takes on the much-needed task of describing and explaining the nature of the relations and interactions between mind, language and action in defining mentality. Papers by renowned philosophers unravel what is increasingly acknowledged to be the enacted nature of the m…
Main description: Is self-consciousness a condition of possibility for knowledge? Does Kant's theory of self-consciousness commit us to transcendental idealism? How convincing is Kant's theory of self-consciousness? How should we understand transcendental idealism? What is Hegel…