The fundamental idea of Surrealism is a philosophical trope that can be understood in terms of its Neoplatonic legacy as a basic insight into what lies beyond reality – that is,…

Sports raise a host of ethical questions and problems. This study presents sports ethics using as its ethical model the dignity of man who is created in the image of God, and applies this model…

Feeling, wanting, and acting are typically understood solely in terms of the individual. What does it mean, then, when we share feelings, have a common goal, or act jointly? This volume…

This collection aims to contribute to current discussion on the relationship between literature and knowledge, and attempts to develop a historical epistemology of literature. The aim is not to…

Epochs are constituted by their differentiated repertoires of knowledge and concepts, and also by distinctive metaphors. Metaphors shape the sensibility of an era and define its core ideas and…

This volume presents Yukio Mishima's essay 'On the Defense of Culture' (1968) for the first time in German translation. Mishima examines the relationship between culture, tradition, the emperor…

This successful textbook on logic, now in its fourth edition, features a time-tested design. The work can be profitably read by beginning students of logic as well as students of other fields…

Nicolas of Cusa’s notion of God as “non aliud” is one of the most spectacular ideas in the history of metaphysics – the negative self-reference of the Absolute. In…

Postmetaphysical social philosophy is characterized by a contractualist constraint of morality. By returning to Kant and Hegel, this volume reveals how postmetaphysical morality has masked the…

A persistent puzzle in mainstream contemporary moral philosophy is why people should strive to do good and to be good.Today it is often ignored that there is more to the human nature than what…

This book presents the history of the Jews living in Fascist Italy. Starting with a survey of the political and social situation of Jews, it goes on to describe their progressive…

For the first time in the German language, this book presents Nicholas Rescher's comprehensive philosophical system. It examines Rescher's contributions to a range of theoretical and practical…

The 10th volume of the International Yearbook of German Idealism attends to the issue of “History“. The contributions examine from different perspectives the various roles of history…

Andreas Büscher, Lena Dorin, Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Hochschule Osnabrück.

Contemplating religion has long ceased to be the sole privilege of theology and religious studies. In cultural studies, a broad spectrum of theories and methods has developed, exploring the role…

Will is understood as the ability of an agent to reflect on and define aims freely, and to act upon and pursue them methodically and steadfastly. For the first time this volume examines in…

This book offers a new interpretation of the theory of the good in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. In a careful reading focusing particularly on the first chapters, the author argues that…

Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason culminates in an explanation of the possibility of experience by way of a system of twelve principles of the pure understanding. The present work…

The Greek poet Pindar (c. 520-440 BC) wrote odes honouring the victors of Greek sporting festivals such as the Olympic Games. They have long been a source of curiosity to scholars, particularly…

This volume covers more than 200 years of recording specific language in German explanatory dictionaries. For the first time, the comparative analysis of six dictionaries from the 18th to the…

Feelings not only determine our everyday life, they have also become a central theme of humanistic and scientific research. This volume offers exemplary insights into the methods of emotion…

Die Juristische Fakultät wurde zusammen mit der Berliner Universität im Jahre 1810 von König Friedrich Wilhelm III. eröffnet. Viele berühmte Juristen lehrten an der…

Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and sociologist Norbert Elias are both famous for their influential interpretations of modern European culture as a whole. Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of…

The multidisciplinary contributions to this collection of papers look at Rome as the cultural and Milan as the political capital in the 4th and 5th centuries. In the literature of the time both…

Even today Ernst Jünger (1895‑1998) still continues to provoke debate. However, the source of this provocation is mainly his militant early work, whereas the civilian years of the…

Obstetrics and gynaecology are seeing growing numbers of legal disagreements with high levels of damages. Often the insurer, or the patient, reaches an out-of-court settlement with the doctor.…

The topic of “grandeur” is found throughout Nietzsche’s corpus. Nietzsche problematizes the term with adjectives like “grand reason,” “grand health,”…

This volume contains letters to and from Arnim originating from the time of the preparation, publication and early reception of the first volume of 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'. Arnim's main…

The articles in this volume examine the various aspects of Judaism and facets of Jewish figures in the work of Franz Werfel. The topics covered range from Jewish assimilation through to Werfel…

This book undertakes an extensive study of the constellation of two eminent thinkers of post-idealism for the first time. The contributions in this volume analyze the relationship between…

These conference proceedings consider visual and literary images of ancient Rome created by artists and scholars from Late Antiquity until the present day. The occasion for the conference was…

In the past the ethnic duality of the Visigoths and the Hispano-Romans has been seen as one of the main characteristics in the formation of the Spanish Visigothic kingdom. This study shows that…

This study shows for the first time how performative historical writing emerged as a historical necessity in the German-speaking world of the late 18th century. In the long term this development…

Most modern epistemologies violate philosophical conditions of sense, as first formulated by Kant, because they assume a standpoint that transcends knowledge. This investigation works out in…

In the ancient world the practical sciences of ethics, politics and economics formed a familiar triad. Since then, however, the field of practical philosophy within academic philosophy as a…

As part of the Göttingen-based research project 'Minor Transmission of Polyphonic Music Before 1550 in German-Speaking Areas,' Martin Staehelin, has systematically indexed previously unknown…

This volume from the “Institute for Law and Finance Series” (ILFS) brings together the presentations from the ILF conference “Too Big To Fail - Do we need a special insolvency…

A possible alternative to the liquidation of the debtor by means of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings is the restoration of his or her solvency through either insolvency proceedings or outside…

The multiparticle systems dealt with here - gases, nanosystems and fluids - involve all forms of matter that are to be categorized between particles (Constituents of Matter, Volume 4) and…

Gegenstand dieses Lehrbuchs ist die Behandlung schwer lösbarer diskreter Optimierungsprobleme. Im ersten Teil werden schnelle Algorithmen vorgestellt, die solche Probleme näherungsweise lösen…

This textbook deals with the numerical solution of initial and boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations. It takes the reader directly to the practically proven methods …

This textbook presents on a very elementary level the basic concepts for error compensation, including the required prerequisites from statistics. The book addresses students and practitioners of…

This new edition of Volume 1 of the Bergmann/Schaefer series sets out the basics of mechanics, acoustics and thermodynamics. All the topics dealt with are discussed in the tried and tested detail…

This revised standard text, now in its 20th edition, provides indispensable, hands-on information for the delivery room, as well as before and after childbirth. Joachim W. Dudenhausen, Klinik…

This book elucidates comprehensive, application-based knowledge in the field of human genetics from a scientific (Read) and clinical (Donnai) perspective. The respected authors, marvelous…

The revised 9th edition presents the theoretical foundations of general chemistry, a brief overview of the elements and touches on current environmental problems.…

Die von den Autoren optimierte Mischung von Anforderungen und Beispielen bedient nicht nur Studierende der Medizin, sondern ist ebenso zweckmäßig auf die Studiengänge Biologie und Pharmazie…

It seems to be self-evident that through perception we gain access to the material world. That visual perception takes an important role seems self-evident as well. But what exactly do we see? The…