Die rein rationale, ausschließlich mit philosophischen Argumenten als Erkenntnisquellen geführte Auseinandersetzung mit den beiden anderen monotheistischen Weltreligionen von Judentum und Islam erreicht in der Geschichte des Christentums ihren Höhepunkt im lateinisch sprachigen Mittelalter. Über die [...]

englischThis book stems from a few impressions and ensuing considerations triggered by reading the pages of the “œuvre” of the theologian Franz C. Overbeck (1837–1905). The pages are above all those of his “Kirchenlexicon”, an extensive collection of reflections gathered for the purpose of carrying [...]

englischImmanuel Kant as an interpreter of St Paul. Fichte as an interpreter of the Gospel of John. Hegel as a philosopher on the life of Jesus. This book shows how mysticism, scholasticism and Reformation theology, as well as Christian subject philosophy, Jewish panentheism and liberal [...]

englischAs a religion of revelation, Islam represents the belief in the absolute unity of God. But how do we theologically inquire about this? What do we do when we believe? What is the relationship between reason and faith? This study explores these and other questions and defines the standpoint of [...]

englischThe political dimension shapes its respective counterpart. It can polarise in the forms of friend–enemy, good–evil and peaceful–threatening, as well as emphatically as a platform for the mediation of knowing–acknowledging–recognition. In ‘recognising’, two people cancel out each other's [...]

englischThis volume of the falsafa. Yearbook for Islamic Philosophy of Religion, which – as usual – contains German and English contributions, is devoted to the thematic relationship between religion and politics. Both interdisciplinary and interreligious perspectives are addressed. In addition to [...]

englischBlaise Pascal is famous as an outstanding mathematician, excellent physicist, philosopher and apologist for Christianity. Incorruptible in his reasoning and with brilliant insights, Pascal tries to mobilise all man's powers of knowledge to explore his true situation. One result of his [...]

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 [...]

englischMax Rohstock examines the metaphysics of the Neoplatonic tradition and J. G. Fichte. Firstly, he finds love to be the central principle on which the philosophy of Plotinus, Proclus, Dionysius, Eriugena, Cusanus and Fichte is based. Secondly, he demonstrates that the metaphysical speculations [...]

englischThis book presents a fresh critique and a groundbreaking interpretation of the "Clash of Civilizations" theory, which holds significant influence in global politics and media. The study delves into the concept's diagnostic limitations, focusing on two compelling case studies: the 2022 [...]

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 [...]

englischMuḥyī d-Dīn Ibn al-ʿArabī and Meister Eckhart are among the leading mystics of the Middle Ages and, given their philosophical shaping of mysticism and their deviation from the prevailing theological tradition at that time, are among the thinkers most commented on in academic research. In the [...]

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 [...]

englischEven before Kant's proclamation of the primacy of practical reason, Anselm of Canterbury's discovery of the epistemic priority of moral value opened the door to philosophical avenues of exploration that are rarely followed consistently. This consistency manifests itself in the resolve to [...]

englischThe present edition of the Rosenzweig Yearbook is the result of a congress held in Coimbra in December 2021, which was attended by the world's most distinguished Rosenzweig interpreters. The congress was entitled "'We know nothing of God even now.' Transcendence and Revelation on the [...]

englischSummer 2020: The Catholic Church is shaken by the abuse scandal, the pandemic is disrupting society and refugees are looking for new support. In his story, Volkmar Mühleis mirrors these events across the ages. Could it also be called The Ship of Fools, after the late medieval text by [...]

englischThe contributions to this book provide historical systematic studies on the question of panentheism, which has been intensively discussed since the turn of the millennium. In contrast to focusing on restrictive or extensive use of the concept of panentheism, this work illuminates a middle [...]

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 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 [...]