englischWith increased digital communication, the question arises as to what the primary reality of human existence is. With the help of the ‘aura’ concept according to Walther Benjamin, authenticity in the sense of comprehensive realness can be determined. With recourse to the phenomenological [...]

englischAccording to Soren Kierkegaard, despair is genuinely a matter of the human mind. Because man is mind, he despairs. This makes despair a key phenomenon from which the mental nature of man can be disclosed in its fundamental ambivalence. The anthology explores the importance of despair for a [...]

englischThe doctrines of virtue elaborated by Thomas Aquinas and Meister Eckhart, which used to be prominent in medieval Europe, are often disregarded today. This is unfortunate since the thoughts of these two theologians are highly illuminating for many discussions in virtue ethics today. This book [...]

englisch‘New School Nietzsche’ reexamines Nietzsche in three parts (Nietzsche for everyone, for no one and for the future), without methodological restrictions or fear of taboos (e.g. Nietzsche's syphilis), but with a work-related focus: only Nietzsche's Nietzsche (from 1878) is of interest, not [...]

englischIn September 1928, Heidegger gave a series of lectures in Riga on Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" and the philosophical problems of the present. A year later he published the book "Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics", which was of the greatest importance for the debate with Cassirer in [...]

englischThis celebrated work, which has already been translated into eight languages, introduces into crucial questions of the philosophy of mind and the cognitive sciences from the perspective of phenomenology. As one of the most ­outstanding books in the field, it explores key topics ­including: [...]