Main description: Over the past years global justice has established itself as one of the new and most promising frontiers of political theory. Sovereign Justice collects valuable contributions from scholars of both continental and analytic tradition, and aims to investigate int…
Main description: The studies in this volume investigate the philosophical, theological, and aesthetic importance of the connection between fundamental philosophical questions of the structure and forms of transcendence and the concept of "negativity". The pieces lead to a deepe…
Der Band durchleuchtet das keineswegs einfach oppositive Verhältnis von Freiheit und Zwang, wie es sich seit der Formierung der Moderne in der Aufklärung entwickelt hat - politisch, philosophisch, anthropologisch, ästhetisch.Freiheit und Zwang stellen nur auf den ersten Blick bi…
Preliminary Material -- Bilder lügen -- Wahrheiten im Bild -- Drei maßgebliche bildtheoretische Ansätze -- Das Pikturale: Artefakte, Farbgebilde, Bilddinge -- Bildermachen -- Bildersehen: Opsis, Imagination, Intuition -- Bildraum -- Die Zeitlichkeit des Bildes: augenblickliche E…
The question of meaning in life is as relevant and central as ever - in spite of all attempts at declaring it senseless. It does not disappear. But how should we deal with this question today? The collection presents a wide range of approaches, discussing subjectivist and object…
by Xie, Wenyu, Wang, Zhihe, Derfer, George E.
fromProcess thought
Main description: Whitehead acknowledged that 'the philosophy of organism seems to approximate more to some strains of. Chinese thought.' Some scholars have attempted to explore this relationship and its implications. The Beijing Conference provided a good forum for interested a…
Khorasan, "Lands of the East", refers to the northeastern region of Iran. In the early Islamic period, the term "Khorasan" came to be used for a much larger area, reaching into Central Asia well beyond the Oxus river, encompassing large parts of northern Afghanistan, and even ex…
