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 fourth volume of the ‘Phenomenological Workshop’ is the first publication to establish the link between Eugen Fink’s early phenomenological writings and the works he published after the war. Of particular philosophical interest are his drafts on ‘Ontological Experience’ (1939). Together [...]

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. [...]

englischMusic can lead us to intense, profound experiences that transform our self-perception and our view of life and the world around us. Readers are given an overview of theories to explain this astonishing phenomenon, ranging from ancient to current philosophical approaches and a comparative [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

englischBased on considerations by the anthropologically oriented psychiatrist Erwin Straus, this book explores the conditions which are present when people experience certain events as significant. In addition, it discusses in detail how personhood emerges in humans and to what extent this depends [...]

englischThe aesthetic concept of atmosphere places human sensitivities under various natural and cultural conditions in the foreground of aesthetic consideration. As the first monograph to integrate an intercultural perspective into this field, “Atmosphären-Ästhetik: Die Verflochtenheit von Natur, [...]

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. [...]

englischIn our Western culture, we are almost constantly in communication. The permanent flood of sound in both public and private spaces testifies to our reluctance to embrace silence and what it expresses.

The pause that structures the flow of speech is something different from the eloquent or the [...]

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 [...]

englischMan is the only living being who is able to relate to the whole and the limits of his existence. In philosophising, he faces the question of the reasons why this is possible. This leads us to a topos that links not only the question of truth and existence, but also the most diverse forms of [...]

englischThe third volume of the ‘Phenomenological Workshop’ reveals the full extent of the phenomenological writings of Eugen Fink as an assistant to Edmund Husserl in the years following the completion of the ‘Sixth Cartesian Meditation’ (1932–1938). Moreover, the unpublished notes and drafts that [...]

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 [...]

englischThe common topic of the nine essays in this book is the phenomenological dialogue involving Kant and his ‘invention of autonomy’. Is there any relevance left to the Kantian notion of autonomy after the intensive development of ethical and phenomenological thought, stressing the importance of [...]

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 [...]

englischTouch is important. As we have learned all too well during the recent period of pandemic-induced ‘social distancing’, people need to touch and be touched. But what is the phenomenon we call ‘touch’ in all its depth of meaning?

Touch is not simply physical and instrumental; it is closely [...]

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 [...]

englisch‘No human being lives without suffering, suffering is everywhere,’ says Euripides. And yet no one could say what suffering is exactly and what happens when we suffer. Therefore, it is worthwhile to pursue the ‘inner life’ of suffering and uncover its basic structure or basic dynamics, its [...]

englischThis book examines the relationship between personhood and vulnerability in dementia from a phenomenological–anthropological research perspective. The disease poses existential challenges to patients affected by it and their social environment in private, nursing and medical settings. [...]

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 [...]

englischThe third and fourth volumes of the ‘Phenomenological Workshop’ disclose in detail the entire mass of notes, drafts for seminars and outlines for research manuscripts that Eugen Fink left behind as a unique phenomenological legacy. They are all part of his early work, written in the years [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

englisch‘No human being lives without suffering, suffering is everywhere,’ says Euripides. And yet no one could say what suffering is exactly and what happens when we suffer. Therefore, it is worthwhile to pursue the ‘inner life’ of suffering and uncover its basic structure or basic dynamics, its [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

englischThe age-old dream of life leaving itself behind remains the great challenge of philosophy. For a long time, it has allowed itself to be led down the wrong path of a search that was supposed to show man a way out of time itself. The thought that the monumental two-part book "Wiedergeburt" [...]

Ein Vierteljahrhundert der Suche eines Autors nach der verlorenen Zeit, unternommen in der Einsamkeit und Freiheit eigenständigen Denkens, um entgegen allen akademischen Modeströmungen zurückzufinden zu den Quellen lebendigen Philosophierens. Band II spürt die Vergangenheit, die niemals Gegenwart [...]

englischThe interdisciplinary book ist explaining the application of a responsive phenomenology in relation to the categories of gift/donation and reciprocity in the context of the dialectics of idenity and alterity. The intention is the grounding foundations of a theory of philosophy of law, of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 strangeness of the Other is answered by an ontological model of serenity as resignativity.

Serenity means abdication of the self and its opening towards the Other. Because the difference of subjectivity and alterity shows up in subjectivity itself as a dialectic of giver and receiver, [...]

Was ist Leben? Im vorliegenden Sammelband wird der Akzent von dieser allgemeinen Frage nach dem Was auf die grundlegende nach dem Wie, nach der Entfaltung des menschlichen Lebens, verschoben. Dabei wird das Leben in seiner Bewegung verfolgt: als Leben, das auf Widerstand stößt, stetig transzendiert, [...]

Die Demut wird gegenwärtig entweder als ein verstaubtes Erbe des Christentums wahrgenommen oder vermehrt als ein säkulares „Modewort“ verstanden, das als mahnender Aufruf für die Rückgewinnung eines verlorenen Maßes zum Einsatz kommt. Jonas Puchta unternimmt den Versuch, unter Berücksichtigung der [...]

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 [...]

Hermann Schmitz, Begründer der Neuen Phänomenologie und einer der produktivsten Philosophen unserer Zeit, kann mit über 90 Jahren auf ein umfangreiches Werk zurückblicken. Einige zentrale Themen wie die Leiblichkeit des Menschen und die Gefühle als Atmosphären erfreuen sich seit einigen Jahren einer [...]

Was ist Europa im Unterschied zur EU? Manche glauben, diese Frage habe sich dadurch erledigt, dass Europa und die EU miteinander im »europäischen Projekt« verschmolzen seien. Doch die Frage, wie Europa als affektiver Raum verstanden werden kann, bleibt unberücksichtigt. Mit Hilfe der Neuen [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

'Das Begräbnis des Philosophen' ist eine erzählerische Meditation über das letzte Jahr im Leben eines Philosophen, seine Zeit am Husserl-Archiv in Leuven, den Austausch mit Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty oder Martin Heidegger, seinen eigenen Werdegang und Abschied. Wie die Philosophie nicht [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Dieses Buch beschreibt die Geschichte der Methodik der Textinterpretation von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert und ist leistet gleichzeitig einen innovativen Beitrag zum besseren Verständnis des Verhältnisses von russischer Geistesgeschichte, früher Phänomenologie und analytischer [...]

Dieses Buch bildet den ersten Band einer phänomenologischen und philosophischen Analyse moderner Arbeit, ihrer Bedeutungs- und Orientierungsgeschichte. Die Untersuchung beginnt mit einer Strukturbeschreibung der industriellen Arbeitswelt. Das Tableau ihrer Eigenart und Problemlage bietet die Kulisse [...]