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The Religion of Genius Taken Seriously. Edgar Zilsel’s Die Geniereligion (1918) Reviewed as a Critical Philosophical Treatise
In this paper I analyze Edgar Zilsel’s genuinely philosophical critique of the epistemological and ethical claims manifested in the so called...
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Language
This chapter stages a confrontation between various post-structuralist materialisms of language and German Idealist naturalisms by way of two case...
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Hauptprobleme der Philosophie (1910)
Hauptprobleme der Philosophie ist Georg Simmels philosophisches Hauptwerk. Die Initiative für das Buch geht auf die Göschen’sche Verlagshandlung,...
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Schiller and Kant on Grace and Beauty
Schiller’s essay “On Grace and Dignity” has been taken by many, including Kant himself, to be an attack on Kant’s moral philosophy, understood as...
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Furcht, Ängste, Angst in der europäischen Theoriegeschichte
Die grundlegenden Fragen und Probleme, um die es beim Angstphänomen insgesamt geht, beschäftigen Menschen seit Jahrtausenden. Menschen sind immer...
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The University
Closely following Jacques Derrida’s reading of Immanuel Kant’s The Conflict of the Faculties, the chapter shows how Kant’s effort to conceptualize...
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Nietzsche on Philology
This chapter offers an examination of the importance for Nietzsche of philology—and its importance for the construction of the New Testament as well....
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The Role of Philosophy in Schiller’s Plays
Philosophical reflection is a constitutive element of Schiller’s dramatic production from its very beginning. This chapter reconstructs the different...
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Introduction
The introduction situates the argument of the book in the context of the apparent decline in religious belief in general and of the doctrine of...
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Historicism, Neo-Idealism, and Modern Theology: Paul Tillich and German Idealism
Paul Tillich develops his own understanding of theology against the background of the debates of neo-idealisms both in philosophy and theology around...
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Max Scheler’s Idea of History: A Juxtaposition of Phenomenology and Idealism
The purpose of this essay is to provide an account of Max Scheler’s notion of history and the growing influence that idealism had on its development....
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Radikalität oder Banalität des Bösen? Überlegungen zu Kant und Arendt
Das radikal Böse ist ein von Immanuel Kant 1792 zuerst verwendeter Begriff. Er bezeichnet in Kants Autonomie-Ethik, die sich nicht mehr an religiösen...
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Beyond the Negative: Appropriation and Surpassing of Negative Theology in Vladimir Jankélévitch’s Philosophie Première
In this article, we propose to question the accuracy of Jean Wahl’s definition of Vladimir Jankélévitch’s Philosophie Première (1953) as one of the...
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Situating Hegel: From Transcendental Philosophy to a Phenomenology of Spirit
This chapter contextualizes G.W.F. Hegel’s work by tracing the pathway of thought from Immanuel Kant’s transcendental philosophy, through G.E....
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Nietzsche and the Quest for the Historical Jesus
In order to contextualize the view of Jesus presented in The Anti-Christ as well as elsewhere, this chapter examines older examples of the critique...
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Part I: Loss
At the heart of the first essay, “At the Mind’s Limits,” is a total loss. My commentary will begin by characterizing that loss—what it is and the...
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A Nietzschean Wuthering Heights?
The moral focus of Wuthering Heights has proved elusive. This chapter argues that there is a moral focus to be found, and that the application of a...
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1 Was ist ‚Religionsphilosophie‘?
Religionsphilosophie ist die philosophische Disziplin, die sich mit Religion bzw. mit den philosophisch relevanten Aspekten von Religion beschäftigt....
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Nikolai Berdyaev’s Philosophy of Creativity as a Revolt Against the Modern Worldview
In Nikolai Berdyaev’s oeuvre two books, The Meaning of the Creative Act (1916) and The New Middle Ages (1924), frame the experience of the Russian...
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From the Pantheism Panic to Modern Anxiety: Friedrich Schelling’s Invention of the Philosophy of “Angst”
Librett examines Schelling’s treatise On the Essence of Human Freedom (1809) and his Ages of the World (1815) to trace therein Schelling’s invention...