Volume 132 (2025), Edition 1

Until now, it has generally been assumed that the 24th Lecture of Schelling’s Presentation of Purely Rational Philosophy, which marks the end and result of his latest major work, consists on the whole merely in a patchwork of all of Schelling’s...

Wittgenstein’s private language argument is generally regarded as a refutation of privacy and thus as a refutation of a Cartesian model of personality, according to which there is an Ego that is immediately certain of itself. Wittgenstein...

This article first deals with the role of religion in the concept of “Leitkultur” and “identitarian politicization” of religions, whose representatives resort to religious affiliations to justify either a partial or complete closure of...

Whether morals and politics are at odds with each other or not is controversially discussed in political philosophy and related sciences. Whereas Immanuel Kant maintains that there should always be harmony between the two it is Max Weber’s...

I respond to six critical discussions of my book, Transparency and Reflection (2024), and its anticipatory summary in this journal (2023). The responses discuss the relation of my views on self-consciousness to those of Immanuel Kant, the notion of...