Philosophy

What makes a criminal trial political? And what are the consequences of such a classification? This volume seeks answers from an array of different disciplinary perspectives and on the basis of specific historical criminal trials, including Auschwitz, Stammheim and Mannesmann. Practical legal and sociological analyses place the phenomenon of the political criminal trial in a wider context.

Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics enjoys an ongoing reception. Following the path this has historically taken and with a view to future developments, the present contributions locate Gadamer's thinking at the centre of contemporary debates, both in philosophy and beyond.

In this collection of studies, Eilert Herms deals with Schleiermacher's overall philosophical-theological conception, his fundamental anthropology, his understanding of history, science, politics and religious community as an ecclesial community. What is offered here is not a »reshaping«, but a reflected appropriation of the world, God and self-view of Reformation Christianity and its ethos.

Thirty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany's Peaceful Revolution of 1989 is today either largely ignored, lamented, or partially denied. Yet could remembrance of it not help guard against the current political resignation and pessimism instead? This was the question posed throughout an interdisciplinary series of lectures held at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, the results of which are documented here.