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Philosophers and Their Poets
(December 2019)
Reflections on the Poetic Turn in Philosophy since Kant
Charles Bambach - Editor
Theodore George - Editor
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Examines the role that poets and the poetic word play in the formation of philosophical thinking in the modern German tradition.
Several of the most celebrated philosophers in the German tradition since Kant afford to poetry an all but unprecedented status in Western thought. Fichte, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Gadamer argue that the scope, limits, and possibilities of philosophy are intimately intertwined with those of po...(Read More) |
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Eckhart, Heidegger, and the Imperative of Releasement
(November 2019)
Ian Alexander Moore - Author
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Provides the first systematic interpretation of Heidegger’s relation to Eckhart, centering on the idea that we must release ourselves in order to know the truth.
In the late Middle Ages the philosopher and mystic Meister Eckhart preached that to know the truth you must be the truth. But how to be the truth? Eckhart’s answer comes in the form of an imperative: release yourself, let be. Only then will you be able to u...(Read More) |
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Genealogies of the Secular
(October 2019)
The Making of Modern German Thought
Willem Styfhals - Editor
Stéphane Symons - Editor
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Presents a historical and philosophical overview of the twentieth-century German debates on secularization, and their significance for contemporary discussions about the relationship between theology and modernity.
While the concept of secularization is traditionally used to define the nature of modern culture, and sometimes to uncover the theological origins of secular modernity, its validity is being questioned ever more radi...(Read More) |
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The Cudgel and the Caress
(March 2019)
Reflections on Cruelty and Tenderness
David Farrell Krell - Author
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Offers philosophical and psychological reflections on cruelty and tenderness.
The Cudgel and the Caress explores the enduring significance of tenderness and cruelty in a range of works across philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literature. Divided into two parts, the book initially focuses on tenderness, with David Farrell Krell delivering original readings of Homer’s Iliad, Sophocles’s Antigone, and ...(Read More) |
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Aesthetic Reason and Imaginative Freedom
(October 2018)
Friedrich Schiller and Philosophy
María del Rosario Acosta López - Editor
Jeffrey L. Powell - Editor
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Shows the relevance of Schiller’s thought for contemporary philosophy, particularly aesthetics, ethics, and politics.
This book seeks to draw attention to Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) as a philosophical thinker in his own right. For too long, his philosophical contribution has been neglected in favor of his much-deserved reputation as a political playwright. The essays in this collection make two arguments. First, Schil...(Read More) |
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The Pen Confronts the Sword
(September 2018)
Exiled German Scholars Challenge Nazism
Avihu Zakai - Author
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Demonstrates how four books by dissident German intellectuals served as a rebuke to the Nazi regime.
During 1942, the decisive battles of Stalingrad and El Alamein raged and the Nazi genocide was at its lethal peak. The Pen Confronts the Sword examines the shared motives behind four remarkable texts German exiles began writing that year: Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus (1947); Ernst Cassirer’s The Myth o...(Read More) |
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Lessing and the Enlightenment
(February 2018)
His Philosophy of Religion and Its Relation to Eighteenth-Century Thought
Henry E. Allison - Author
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A comprehensive study of Lessing’s religious thought.
Although only one aspect of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s diverse oeuvre, his religious thought had a significant influence on thinkers such as Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and present-day liberal Protestant theologians. His thought is particularly difficult to assess, however, because it is found largely in a series of essays, reviews, critical studies, polemical writi...(Read More) |
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East German Historians since Reunification
(July 2017)
A Discipline Transformed
Axel Fair-Schulz - Editor
Mario Kessler - Editor
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Surveys how reunification in 1990 impacted historical scholarship in the former East Germany.
With German reunification and the demise of the German Democratic Republic in 1990, East German historians and their traditions of historiography were removed from mainstream discourse in Germany and relegated to the periphery. By the mid-1990s, few GDR-trained historians remained in academia. These developments led to...(Read More) |
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Report on the Aeginetan Sculptures
(June 2017)
With Historical Supplements
Johann Martin Wagner - Author
F. W. J. Schelling - Editor
Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. - Translated, edited, and with an introduction by
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Tells the story of Bavaria’s acquisition of ancient Greek sculptures that rivaled those acquired by England from the Parthenon.
The controversial removal of the Parthenon sculptures from Greece to England in the first decade of the nineteenth century by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin, sparked an international competition for classical antiquities. This volume tells a lesser-known chapter of that story...(Read More) |
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