Publications
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On the daimonion of Socrates
(2010-09-28)
Plutarch's dialogue On the daimonion of Socrates is a unique combination of exciting historical romance and serious philosophical and religious discussion. The volume offers a range of essays on themes providing further ...
On Melancholy
(2008-11-10)
Rufus of Ephesus' (fl. ca. AD 100) On Melancholy deals with a medical condition oscillating between madness, depression, and bouts of great creativity. This collection of the Greek, Latin, and Arabic fragments makes this ...
Gegen falsche Götter und falsche Bildung
(2016-04-27)
Tatians "Rede an die Griechen" (2. Jh. n. Chr.) ist die vehemente Attacke eines gebildeten Christen gegen die ganze hellenische Kultur- und Götterwelt und damit ein Vorläufer der großen Auseinandersetzungen zwischen ...
Die Sextussprüche und ihre Verwandten
(2015-06-18)
Die dem Philosophen Sextus zugeschriebenen Sprüche stellen ein bemerkenswertes Beispiel für eine christlich überarbeitete Spruchsammlung der Kaiserzeit dar. Sie haben pythagoreische Vorläufer und wirken über Evagrius ...
Menschrechtsberichterstattung durch Unternehmen
(2017-10-02)
Die so genannte CSR-Richtlinie der EU gibt den Mitgliedstaaten auf, große Unternehmen dazu zu verpflichten, Informationen zu ihrer ökologischen, menschenrechtlichen und sozialen 'Bilanz' offenzulegen. Sebastian Eickenjäger ...
Für Religionsfreiheit, Recht und Toleranz
(2011-09-27)
In dieser Schrift wendet sich der bedeutende spätantike Redner Libanios an den römischen Kaiser Theodosius, um seine Unterstützung für den Erhalt heidnischer Tempel zu gewinnen, die von fanatischen Christen bedroht werden. ...
Joseph und Aseneth
(2009-12-07)
Liebes- und Bekehrungsgeschichte in einem - die Erzählung von der stolzen ägyptischen Priestertochter Aseneth, ihrer Liebe zu Joseph, dem Sohn Jakobs, ihrer Bekehrung und Bewahrung, wird in einer aktuellen Übersetzung auf ...
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 ...
Pyrrhonian Skepticism in Diogenes Laertius
(2015-04-14)
This volume offers the first bilingual edition of a major text in the history of epistemology, Diogenes Laertius's report on Pyrrho and Timon in his Lives of Eminent Philosophers. Leading experts contribute a philosophical ...
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, ...
Sicherheit als Grundsatz
(2018-12-17)
In its basic rights doctrine, security takes on various different guises. However, the understandings of security as a legitimate aim, as a positive obligation to protect, or even as a fundamental right, do not do justice ...
Remixe auf Hostingplattformen
(2017-12-12)
Remixers recombine copyright-protected audiovisual material and distribute it via hosting platforms. To what extent does copyright law allow remixing and what is the impact of platforms' policies and filtering mechanisms ...
Reine Rechtslehre
(2020)
Hans Kelsen's »Pure Theory of Law«, which was published in 1934, is one of the key works on legal theory in the 20th century. In it, Kelsen presents a theory in which he separates the law from morality on the one hand and ...
Settlement and History in Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Galilee
(2009)
Uzi Leibner aims to provide the most accurate picture possible of the nature and history of the rural settlement in the Lower Galilee during Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods when this region played an important ...
Intellectual Property in the Global Arena
(2010)
The private international law of intellectual property is currently much debated both in Europe and abroad. Art. 8 of the Rome II Regulation of 2007, which codifies a territorial approach for the infringement of intellectual ...
Economic Analysis of International Law
(2014)
The topics covered in this volume range from classics of the on-going discussion on the economic analysis of international law – such as the issue of legitimacy of customary international law – to more recent topics such ...
Common Principles of European Intellectual Property Law
(2012)
Intellectual property law has been harmonized by EU law to a considerable extent. At the same time intellectual property rights have converged. The academic discussion has not kept pace with this development. European ...
Verbraucherrechtsdurchsetzung
(2020)
The value of civil rights depends crucially on their enforceability. Especially when it comes to small claims like consumer claims, enforcement can however prove to be difficult. Martin Fries develops criteria for dispute ...
Studien zum Gottesbild im Johannesevangelium
(2020)
The whole of the New Testament is occupied with God and the discussion of him. New Testament scholarship, however, barely treats God the Father as a separate subject. Because His significance is not to be neglected, the ...
The Reformation of Philosophy
(2020)
Did the Reformation introduce a new approach to philosophy? How did this historical caesura influence key thinkers in the history of modern philosophy up to the twenty-first century?
This volume discusses the Reformation ...