englischThis study intimately examines the ethical aspects of inclusivity in order to help committed Christian volunteers charged with supervising its implementation by offering a theological perspective on this matter. The book explicitly identifies empathy as the basis of substantial ethical [...]

englischThe way in which Goethe changed his style in his later writings is best described by the idea of ‘indirectness’ in contrast to the classic phase of his career in the 1790s. As the symbolic moment with its timeless and direct significance dominated at that time, the elderly Goethe felt [...]

englisch„A magician isn’t a juggler, but an actor playing the part of a magician,“ said Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, founder of the first magic theater in Paris. In the transition to modernity, stage magic was a catalyst and battlefield of the conflict between the development of bourgeois culture and [...]

englischTaking three well-known biographies and Camus’s own diaries into account, philosopher and literary scholar Bernd Oei provides an expert and accessible personal survey of the life and philosophical and literary work of Albert Camus. Analogies to well-known contemporary thinkers, but also [...]

englischWarsaw's cityscape reflects the great upheavals of recent European history like no other. From the complete destruction in the Second World War, through the reconstruction and redesign of the city under communist rule, to the modern European metropolis shaped by capitalism, they all had a [...]

englischThis volume examines the structurally parallel texts of 1 and 2 Thessalonians from an eschatological perspective. This helps a better understanding of the literary relationship of the two letters and to prove 1 Thessalonians as a pre-text of 2 Thessalonians. A dense structure of connections [...]

englischSomething new is happening in ethical thinking, for which empathy is increasingly becoming the starting point. However, it is not yet entirely clear how this basic empathetic attitude is changing ethics and what kind of empathy is involved. In this respect, the point of departure for a form [...]

englischAlmost 200 years have passed since the publication of E.T.A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann and Alex Garland's science fiction film Ex Machina. And yet both ask amazingly similar questions about human integrity in the face of artificial intelligence. The humanoid machines act as objects of [...]