englischAnother work on Kierkegaard? Absolutely! How does the human being find a mature self? How is the self constituted despite despair and melancholy? In what philosophical tradition do both states stand and what structures do they exhibit? This monograph addresses these questions by analysing [...]

englischIs a society 'as if God existed' better? Combining a cybernetic problem analysis with Kołakowski's thought, this study first presents his diagnoses of the contemporary crisis as closely related to the crisis of the sacred. This conclusion is then generalised through an in-depth analysis of [...]

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 [...]

englischWhat is reality? What does it mean to be real? The questions today seem more topical and at the same time more complicated than ever before. The concept of reality as power, distinct from reality as the neutral given or as a mesh of available interpretations, opens up a new approach to the [...]

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 [...]