Philosophy

Based on Gadamer's own critique of Truth and Method, Tobias Keiling develops a hermeneutics 'after Gadamer'. Gadamer's hermeneutics is as indispensable as it is problematic. To think 'after Gadamer' is to ask whether he is ahead of us.

The problem of natural theology has become more acute in late modernity. With impulses from the philosophy of religion, problem-historical analyses and contemporary systematic-theological reflections, the contributors to this volume undertake a reassessment of the problem field of natural theology.

The anniversary volume »SAPERE Syntheses« takes stock of twenty-five years of editorial and commentary work. Distinguished representatives of various disciplines engage in a fascinating dialogue of research, grounded in ancient voices, and discuss the topics of »truth,« »life,« »the human being,« and »the world.«

Literature or textbook? In antiquity, no clear distinction was made in this respect, as Christian Neumann demonstrates regarding the complex interplay of literary design and didactic function in Plutarch's Quaestiones Graecae and Romanae and Gellius' Noctes Atticae.