Europeans - or "Westerners" - have long been inclined to think that their form of socio-political organisation, often referred to as 'modern', is supe…

As an emerging field within the Nordic countries, the 'intersection' between art and research is still in the process of being named and renamed. Prac…

The war on terror, the globalization of politics and the emergence of international law have shaped our recent history and brought about new questions…

Modern life is speeding-up, incessantly. Strange as it is, while the art of saving time reaches unprecedented heights through the introduction of ever…

The occasional essays which form the present volume document the author's sense that what he initially thought of as separate intellectual and existen…

In three chapters, Tong Shijun takes us through universalism, overlapping consensus and confucianism. Theoretical Dialogues in Practice argues, in cha…

Hegel's influence on post-Hegelian philosophy is as profound as it is ambiguous. Modern philosophy is philosophy after Hegel. Taking leave of Hegel's…

Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son on God's command. This willingness symbolizes the violent potential of authoritarian religion and it can be s…

Thema der vorliegenden Abhandlung sind die religionsphilosophischen Konsequenzen der Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns von Jürgen Habermas. Obwohl H…

The Nordic Summer University is committed to new developments in academic thought and practice. In this inaugural volume of Summertalk, NSU is proud t…

This volume provides an invaluable overview of Walter Benjamin's writings about technology, history, politics and the visual. From a variety of theore…