Wiener Reihe
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Seit 2014 erscheinen die Bände der renommierten Wiener Reihe bei De Gruyter. Das äußere Layout der Bände wurde modernisiert, inhaltlich und personell jedoch ist das Profil der seit mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten erscheinenden Buchreihe von Kontinuität geprägt. Die Bände sind jeweils einer aktuellen philosophischen Fragestellung gewidmet. Eine internationale Autorenschaft und die Veröffentlichung fremdsprachiger Beiträge sind Elemente des Programms. Die Reihe will dazu beitragen, dogmatische Abgrenzungen zwischen philosophischen Schulen und Traditionen abzubauen.
How is Leibniz’s philosophy relevant today? The authors explore this question vis-à-vis various topics, including “individuality” as a key notion in modernity; the subjective conditions of the object world and the problem of scientism; the theoretical foundation for inter-religious dialog; the aesthetics of dissonance. They also examine the value of interdisciplinary academies and the relationship between theory and practice.
Robert B. Pippin played a major role in shaping film philosophy as a special theme of aesthetics. This volume combines an essay by Pippin with papers by international authors who are associated with his research. Beyond the general realm of film and philosophy, there are readings of key film genres, including the Western and film noir, where Pippin's analyses are compared with those of Deleuze and Žižek.
For the first time in the German language, this volume presents key positions in the intense international debate on climate justice. Experts from the fields of ethics, political philosophy, and the climate sciences discuss principles of fair distribution, future-oriented cooperation models for dealing with global climate change, and ethical responses to climate engineering proposals.
An often-overlooked thesis of Hegelian aesthetics is that artistic work is a locus for society’s process of self-understanding. Does this specification of location that Hegel formulated with regard to the art of his era still have relevance for today’s self-conceptions? What significance does his Aesthetics have for a theory of modernity? In this volume, renowned scholars explore these questions.
This study examines the place of the arts in contemporary society. Beyond the illusion of autonomy and beyond strategies of pure aestheticization, what standing can art have in society and how can it change its status? In seeking answers to these questions, the author turns back to the 20th century and to the sometimes competing, sometimes complementary aesthetic currents of modernism and the avant-garde.
Approaching concepts of nature through a multidisciplinary lens, Nature as Resource, Aesthetic Experience, and Ecological Challenge assembles essays by scholars from the Americas, Africa, and Europe. Bringing together perspectives in philosophy, theology, literary studies, cultural ecology, art history, and the bio-sciences, the volume engages with crucial concerns regarding perceptions of nature in the Anthropocene and the increasing social and ethnic inequalities in the wake of environmental damage. The essays address aesthetic and ethical questions about nature, providing novel perspectives on representations of nature in literature and the visual and performative arts. They investigate nature as threatened by human interference and resulting issues of social (in)justice, and they explore the potential of decolonial approaches to nature. The volume treads new ground by combining expertise from a wide spectrum of research fields and cultural backgrounds, with the aim of fostering the development of new ethical principles and ways of planetary thinking. It thus adds an innovative perspective to existing discourses on ecologically sustainable forms of coexistence between human and nonhuman – or more-than-human – nature.
