Publications
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Gesellschaft in der Zerstreuung
(2017-06-02)
Despite established social, political and cultural differences, and despite the tricky mountainous setting, over 50 early modern era alpine valley communities managed to cooperate reliably with one another without either ...
Privatheit wider Willen?
(2015-11-24)
Competent adult internet users voluntarily disclose vast amounts of personal data. As such disclosure can cause great harm, governments may feel that through minor interventions they can protect their citizens from disclosure ...
Philosophie der Republik
(2018-08-01)
The freedom potential of modern societies, above all the justification of political authority, is today linked to a democratically constituted order. What is meant by the idea of being democratic seems, however, to be ...
Reformation und die Ethik der Wirtschaft
(2018-08-01)
The grand thesis that the spirit of Protestantism is one of modern capitalism's great driving forces originated from Max Weber. According to him, religious foundations of inner world asceticism, Luther's concept of vocation, ...
Bismarck's Institutions
(2013-01-01)
The decline in birth rates in advanced economies is not a new phenomenon. Between 1880 and 1900 birth rates dropped from 5.5 children per woman to 2.5 children per woman. A further decline from 2.5 to 1.5 or even 1.3 ...
Das Endgericht bei Paulus
(2019-06-12)
In the 'New Perspective on Paul' the last judgment does not play any decisive role. According to other Pauline scholars, Paul, in his many fragmentary references to a last judgment, did not presuppose a consistent conception ...
Muße und Erzählen: ein poetologischer Zusammenhang
(2016-08-26)
Gibt es einen poetologischen Zusammenhang zwischen Muße und Erzählen? Thomas Klinkert untersucht dies anhand literarischer Texte in italienischer, französischer, spanischer und deutscher Sprache vom Mittelalter bis zur ...
On Prophecy, Dreams and Human Imagination
(2014-12-15)
Synesius' essay De insomniis ('On Dreams') inquires into the meaning and importance of dreams for human beings and treats themes - most of all the relationship of humans to higher spheres -, which for religiously- and ...
Smart Contracts
(2019-06-12)
How smart are smart contracts? Do they live up to their promise of a more effective rights enforcement? Nine pioneers from both academia and legal practice discuss the technological and legal foundations of smart contracts, ...
Banned Birds
(2019-12-09)
The dietary prohibitions in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 represent one of the most detailed textual overlaps in the Pentateuch between the Priestly material and Deuteronomy. This is especially the case for the birds: ...
Anthropologie der Theorie
(2019-10-28)
The link between leisure and contemplative activity, as paradigmatically developed in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, has a pre- and long post-history reaching into present day philosophy and theology. Aristotle's melding ...
Die Griechischen Götter
(2009-08-03)
Die vorliegende erste vollständige Übersetzung von "Die Griechischen Götter" des Philosophen Lucius Annaeus Cornutus stellt ein ebenso einzig- wie eigenartiges Handbuch der stoischen allegorischen Götterdeutung dar, das ...
Was ist wahre Freiheit?
(2013-04-16)
Bei Epiktets Unterredung Über die Freiheit handelt es sich nicht nur um einen exemplarischen Text eines authentischen Stoikers (um 100 n. Chr.), sondern um ein Programm antiker Lebenskunst. Freiheit als "Leben, wie man ...
In Praise of Asclepius
(2016-08-24)
In the second century AD Aelius Aristides wrote eight prose hymns to Greek gods. This volume presents a new edition of the Greek text of four of these hymns (focusing on Asclepius), a new English translation with notes, ...
Dialog über die Liebe - Amatorius
(2018-12-18)
Plutarch gives Plato's philosophy of love a new direction by applying its basic ideas to marital love and by defending the significance of sexuality for personality development and human bonding. This work is presented ...
Muße-Diskurse
(2019-06-28)
The literary discourses of this volume on »Muße«, »dosug«, and »prazdnost'« (leisure) open up new perspectives on the development of Russian culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by means of lexical and semantic ...
Polis-Freundschaft-Jenseitsstrafen
(2010-09-28)
Die Briefe des Synesios von Kyrene (ca. 370-413 n.Chr.), der nicht nur Philosoph und Schriftsteller, sondern auch Feldherr und Bischof war, geben Einblick in die sozialen, politischen und religiös-intellektuellen Verhältnisse ...
Juden im Wilhelminischen Deutschland 1890-1914
(2024)
Juden im Wilhelminischen Deutschland 1890-1914
Muße und Gesellschaft
(2019-06-28)
Leisure (otium) is an unfettered lingering in time set loose from instrumental rationality and utilitarianism. It aims to be free from regimes of time and pressures to perform, that is, it aims at freedom set in time yet ...
The Conceptual Change of Conscience
(2019-02-28)
How did the drastic experiences of the turbulent twentieth century affect the works of a legal historian? What kind of an impact did they have on the ideas of justice and rule of law prominent in legal historiography? Ville ...