Philosophy

Hip-Hop is the soundtrack of Black Lives Matter protests, evident in scenes where songs from the genre are played and sung throughout the protests. Max Tretter adopts an interdisciplinary approach to create a framework for precisely assessing the impact of such aesthetic expressions in public and for taking grounded normative positions on them.

The Herder Yearbook offers a selection of current research on Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803). Now for the seventeenth time, this volume presents contributions on Herder’s understanding of nature, the influence of English and Scottish philosophy on Herder, his reception of the English satirist Jonathan Swift, four book reviews as well as the continuation of the Herder bibliography of primary and secondary literature.

This volume sheds light on the intellectual engagement with wealth in the various literary genres of the Hebrew Bible, Greek philosophical and Greek poetic literature, Jewish writings from the Hellenistic-Roman period, Qumran, the writings of the New Testament and the Early Church.

Chi-Kin Lei reexamines 1 Peter 3:19 and its early Christian reception, challenging the current scholarly consensus by exploring its association with the doctrine of Christ's descent into Hades ( descensus ) and its significance in Christian theology.