englischThis volume offers interreligious and interdisciplinary insight into the cinematic-serial and literary narration of evil. Evil is an important motif in literature, film and series. We encounter it in the most diverse forms - be it the Joker from The Dark Knight, Goethe's Mephisto or in the [...]

Der Band „Religionsphilosophie heute. Stimmen – Schauplätze – Systeme“ bietet einen Einblick in die vielfältigen Entwicklungen der zeitgenössischen Religionsphilosophie. Im Zentrum stehen neue Denkansätze – systematische Entwürfe ebenso wie Stellungnahmen zu aktuellen Herausforderungen –, die die [...]

englischWith his philosophy of transcendence, Karl Jaspers is considered one of the few great metaphysicians of the 20th century. This study is devoted to the roots of his transcendental thinking in the philosophy of Plotinus (c. 204–270). It demonstrates the constitutive role that reference to the [...]

englischDespite the crisis in institutionalised religion, religious questions are occupying philosophical reflection more than ever. This volume compiles different approaches to the philosophy of religion, which at the same time deal with current topics in an exemplary manner. Important approaches [...]

englischThis monograph reveals basic structural parallels between the ideas of a good life in both Kierkegaard and Camus. Both authors share a range of metaphors on and concepts of experience of the negative, and both conceptualise a good life as not-fleeing, but without a positive concept. The [...]

englischThis volume deals with the question of the body and corporeality in an interdisciplinary way. The classical positions of philosophy and theology have treated the question of the human body merely marginally. In this volume, this circumstance is firstly reflected on thematically and [...]

englischThe widespread discomfort with modernity has awakened a renewed interest in ‘spirituality’, i.e. in the intellectual and emotional deepening of existence. Mainstream modern philosophy, as an exponent of a disenchanted world view, has remained quite untouched by this development. Based on [...]