Publications by faculty members
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The Body in Religion: Images and Practices

Achim Lichtenberger (Eds. w/ Angelika Lohwasser & Holger Strutwolf)

Body and religion are closely linked. The human body, which is the most direct level of human experience, is used to express and project religious ideas. For example, ablutions, head coverings, gender roles and body modifications are often religiously charged and integrated into a religious frame of reference. This volume brings together various disciplines that address the topic from a global and time-spanning perspective.
Published in 2025 by Ergon; ISBN: 978-3-98740-179-4

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© Velbrück Wissenschaft

Philosophie und Rassismus: Debatten und Kontroversen

Franziska Dübgen (Eds. w/ Marina Martinez Mateo & Ruth Sonderegger)

How can philosophy contribute to analysing and criticising racism? And how can we rethink philosophy on the basis of approaches and struggles critical of racism? These questions are controversially discussed in the current German-language debate. This volume takes stock of these discussions and brings a variety of methods, approaches and philosophical traditions into dialogue.

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Sozialgeschichte: Einführung

Olaf Blaschke

Every good work of history today contains at least some social history. The early structural history and historical social science of the 1970s had a hugely influential impact. This introduction traces their success, right through to contemporary cultural history. Why did social history fight against political and event history? How did its theoretical and methodological discussions enrich the discipline? What transformations does the inclusion of everyday, gender and cultural history entail?

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© Brill Mentis

Fragen der Subjekttheorie in einem sprachpragmatischen Rahmen

Anna Kahmen & Nicolas Koj (Eds.)

In previously unpublished texts, Carl Friedrich Gethmann explores the formal and pragmatic conditions of knowledge and will formation and responds to contributions in which advanced students approach his work. The texts and replies unfold an insightful dialogue and are each devoted to different aspects of Gethmann's philosophy: the concept of protologics, anti-mentalism, the grammar of ascriptions, protoethics and applied questions of animal ethics.

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© Beltz Juventa

Konstellationen und Transformationen: Zwischen alter und neuer Kritischer Theorie

Christian Thein

In eight contributions, the volume addresses constellations of critical theory via history and genealogy, rationality and critique of rationality, rights and critique of rights, and theory and practice. Based on a reconstruction of transformations between “old” and “new” approaches, it opposes the high-profile narrative of the irreversibility of paradigm shifts in the history of the Frankfurt School.
Published in 2025 by Beltz Juventa; ISBN: 978-3-7799-9013-0

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© Vittorio Klostermann

Gehirn und Freiheit: Eine Naturphilosophie des Bewusstseins

Ulrich Krohs

Consciousness arises in the brain, communication and action are based on neuronal processes. Does the neuronal basis of our consciousness stand in the way of freedom of action and will? On the contrary, it is the brain that renders freedom possible! Ulrich Krohs argues for this from a perspective of philosophy of nature. He takes into account empirical findings and theoretical approaches from biology, psychology and cognitive science and also keeps physics in mind.
Published in 2025 by Klostermann; ISBN: 978-3-465-04672-1