englischIn his elegantly written monograph Staat ohne Gott. Religion in der säkularen Moderne, the renowned constitutional legal expert Horst Dreier promotes the achievements of the secular constitutional state without one-sidedly advocating a secular dictatorship of values. In analyses that are [...]

englischEvery day we are confronted with numerous alienating phenomena and equally alienating ways of dealing with them. The question is: How we can deal with them in a positive way? In his latest book, Bernhard Waldenfels powerfully demonstrates that it is not enough to only examine the otherness [...]

englischThe validity of human rights can be defended. Those who do not want to choose between the imperial assertion that human rights are a triumphal product of the ‘West’ and the relativistic assertion that they are ‘only’ Western would do well to follow closely the debate about ‘affirmative [...]

englischThe time of theories on modernity of a philosophical and sociological nature has not yet expired by any means, as is sometimes presumed. On the contrary, our current era not only seems to almost need such theories but also to demand them. We are engaged in an ever-present search for a way of [...]

Der Tübinger Philosoph Otfried Höffe legt in seinem opus magnum ein engagiertes Plädoyer für die Freiheit vor. Im interdisziplinären Gespräch mit Philosophen, Theologen, Soziologen und Juristen werden Reichweite und Grenze von Höffes kritischem Liberalismus ausgelotet.Mit Beiträgen u.a. von Volker [...]

englischIn his bestseller on the meaning of the meaning of life, the renowned philosopher Volker Gerhardt endeavours to remap the much disputed territory between faith and knowledge, and explains why people with strong religious beliefs should try to be close to God using both their heads and their [...]