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2021
January 20, 2021
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Dominik Müller
Alireza Dosstdar: Introduction. In: The Iranian Metaphysicals, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2018, pp. 1-25.
January 13, 2021
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Andreas Nehring
Julian Strube: Towards the Study of Esotericism without the ‘Western’: Esotericism from the Perspective of a Global Religious History. In: New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism (Eds. Egil Asprem and Julian Strube), Leiden: Brill, 2020, pp. 45-66.
2020
December 16, 2020
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Andreas Nehring
Hugh B. Urban: The Torment of Secrecy: Ethical and Epistemological Problems in the Study of Esoteric Traditions. In: History of Religions 37 (1998), No. 3, pp. 209–248.
November 18, 2020
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner, PD Dr. Bernd-Christian Otto, Prof. Dr. Andreas Nehring und Prof. Dr. Dominik Müller
Michael Lackner, Bernd-Christian Otto, Andreas Nehring und Dominik Müller: Project Proposal on Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (incl. a comparative question matrix). Unpublished draft.
June 24, 2020
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner
Michael Lackner: Introduction to Volume 1 of the Handbook of Prognostication and Prediction in China (Lackner/Zhao Lu, eds.), forthcoming.
May 27, 2020
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner
Carlo Ginzburg: Clues: Roots of a Scientific Paradigm. In: Theory and Society, Vol 7, No. 3 (May, 1979), pp. 273–288.
January 22, 2020
Text suggested by Dr. Matthias Heiduk
Matthias Heiduk: Prognostication in the Western Christian World – An Introductory Survey. Forthcoming contribution for the IKGF publication Prognostication in Medieval European and Mediterranean Societies.
January 8, 2020
Text suggested by PD Dr. Bernd-Christian Otto and Prof. Dr. Andreas Nehring
Egil Asprem: Beyond the West. Towards a New Comparativism in the Study of Esotericism. In: Correspondences. Journal for the Study of Esotericism 2/1, pp. 3-33.
2019
December 4, 2019
Text suggested by PD Dr. Bernd-Christian Otto and Prof. Dr. Andreas Nehring
Jason N. Blum: Retrieving Phenomenology of Religion as a Method for Religious Studies. In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion 80/4 (2012), pp. 1025-1048.
November 13, 2019
Text suggested by PD Dr. Bernd-Christian Otto and Prof. Dr. Andreas Nehring
Michael Bergunder: What is Esotericism? Cultural Studies Approaches and the Problems of Definition in Religious Studies. In: Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 22 (2010), pp. 9–36.
July 10, 2019
Text suggested by PD Dr. Bernd-Christian Otto
Bernd-Christian Otto: Towards a cultural theory of magic.
Unpublished book chapters.
June 19, 2019
Texts suggested by Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner
Preface by Zhu Xi (1130-1200) to a diviner's handbook, 1162. 贈徐端叔命序， 朱熹集， 四川教育出版社， 1996， 卷 75， vol.7, p. 3920.
Unpublished seminar notes on Albertus Magnus by Michael Lackner.
May 22, 2019
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner
Georges Dumézil: "...Le Moyne noir en gris dedans Varennes": Sotie nostradamique suivie d'un divertissement sur les dernières paroles de Socrate. Paris: Gallimard 1984, pp. 91-102.
January 16, 2019
Texts suggested by Prof. Dr. Marc Matten and Philipp Winkler
Arif Dirlik: The Idea of a "Chinese Model". In: Contemporary Marxist Theory. A Reader, New York et al.: Bloomsbury 2014, pp. 109-122.
Wang Hui: Depoliticized Politics, From East to West. In: New Left Review 41 (2006), pp. 29-45.
2018
December 5, 2018
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Marc Matten
Axel Schneider: Between Dao and History: Two Chinese Historians in Search of a Modern Identity for China. In: History and Theory 35/4 (1996), pp. 54-73.
November 21, 2018
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Philipp Balsiger
Jörn Rüsen: Sense of History: What does it mean? With an Outlook onto Reason and Senselessness. In: Meaning and representation in history, ed. by Jörn Rüsen, New York / Oxford: Berghahn 2006, pp. 1-8 and 40-64.
November 5, 2018
Text suggested by Dr. Miriam Czock
Paul Ricoeur: Towards a Hermeneutics of Historical Consciousness. In: Time and Narrative. Vol. 3, Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1985, pp. 207-235.
October 24, 2018
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Philipp Balsiger
Sophie Botros: Collingwood and Oakshott: Is History Possible? In: Truth, Time, and History. A Philosophical Inquiry, London et al.: Bloomsbury 2017, pp. 149-189.
July 4, 2018
Texts suggested by Prof. Dr. Hao Chen and Brigid Vance
Esther J. Hamori: Concluding Reflections. In: Women's Divination in Biblical Literature: Prophecy, Necromancy, and Other Arts of Knowledge. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, pp. 217-223.
Ann B.Waltner: T'an-yang-tzu and Wang Shih-chen: Visionary and Bureaucrat in the Late Ming. In: Late Imperial China 8 (1987), pp. 105-133.
June 20, 2018
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Hao Chen
Esther J. Hamori: Women's Divination and the Arts of Knowledge. In: Women's Divination in Biblical Literature: Prophecy, Necromancy, and Other Arts of Knowledge. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, pp. 3-40.
May 23, 2018
Text suggested by Thorsten Graßmann
David Lai: Learning from the Stones: A Go Approach to Mastering China's Strategic Concept, Shi. (SSI Monograph) Carlisle 2004.
May 9, 2018
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Philipp Balsiger
Jacques Derrida: Wears and Tears. In: Specters of Marx, London/New York: Routledge 1994, pp. 96-117.
April 25, 2018
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Philipp Balsiger
John R. Hall: The Last Apocalpyse? In: Apocalpyse. From Antiquity to the Empire of Modernity, Cambridge/Malden: Polity Press 2009, pp. 200-226.
February 7, 2018
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Philipp Balsiger
David M. Freidenreich: Comparisons Compared: A Methodological Survey of Comparisons of Religion from "A Magic Dwells" to A Magic still Dwells. In: Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 16 (2004), pp. 80-101.
January 24, 2018
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Philipp Balsiger
Jonathan Z. Smith: In Comparison a Magic Dwells. In: Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982, pp. 19-35.
January 10, 2018
Text suggested by Dr. Matthias Heiduk
Azfar Moin: Cosmos and Power: A Comparative Dialogue on Astrology, Divination and Politics in Pre-modern Eurasia. In: The Medieval History Journal, Vol. 19/1 (2016), pp. 122-129.
2017
November 29, 2017
Text suggested by Dr. Matthias Heiduk
Bernd-Christian Otto: Magic and religious individualization. On the construction and deconstruction of analytical categories in the Study of Religion. In: Historia Religionum - An International Journal, Vol. 9 (2017), pp. 29-52.
November 8, 2017
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner
John Lagerwey: China a Religious State. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010.
July 12, 2017
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Fabrizio Pregadio and commented by Dr. Claudia Ferrari
Al-Gazali: Faith in Divine Unity and Trust in Devine Providence. Ed. by David B. Burrell. Louisville: Fons Vitae, 2001.
June 28, 2017
Text suggested by Dr. Stephan Kory
Manetti, Giovanni: Theories of the Sign in Classical Antiquity. Transl. by Christine Richardson. Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana University Press 1993.
May 31, 2017
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner
Cicero: De divinatione Book II. Ed. by W. A. Falconer. Cambridge (MASS.): Harvard University Press 1923.
April 26, 2017
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner
Cicero: De divinatione Book I. Ed. by W. A. Falconer. Cambridge (MASS.): Harvard University Press 1923.
February 08, 2017
Texts suggested by PD Dr. Thomas Meyer
Kuan-Min Huang: Mirror or Prism for Chinese Modernity? A Reading of Leo Strauss. In: Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World. Reorienting the Political (ed. by Kai Marchal and Carl K. Y. Shaw). London: Lexington Books, 2017, pp. 211-229.
Mark Lilla: Reading Strauss in Beijing. In: New Republic Magazine (online).
February 01, 2017
Texts suggested by Prof. Dr. Philipp Balsiger, Dr. Martin Kroher, and Dr. Stephan Kory
Hanegraaff, Wouter: Esotericism and the Academy. Rejected Knowlegde in Western Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2012.
Moore, Omar Khayyam: Divination - A New Perspective. In: American Anthropologist 59, 1957, pp. 69-74.
January 25, 2017
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Philipp Balsiger and Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner
Ginzburg, Carlo: Morelli, Freud and Sherlock Holmes: Clues and Scientific Method. In: History Workshop Journal 9, 1980, pp. 5-36.
2016
December 14, 2016
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Philipp Balsiger and Dr. Martin Kroher
Tetlock, Philip and Gardner, David: Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction. New York: Crown Publishers 2015.
November 11, 2016
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Philipp Balsiger
Loye, David: The Knowable Future: A Psychology of Forecasting and Prophecy. Lincoln: iUniverse 1978.
October 26, 2016
Texts suggested by Prof. Dr. Philipp Balsiger
Rozeboom, W. W.: Fondations of the Theory of Prediction. Homewood (Ill.): Dorsey Press 1966.
Annus, A.: Divination. In: Vocabulary for the Study of Religon (Segal, R. A. and von Stuckrad, K. eds.). Leiden: Brill 2015, pp. 445-450.
April 27, 2016
Richter, Melvyn : Appreciating a Contemporary Classic: The Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe and Future Scholarship. pp. 7-19.
Koselleck, Reinhart : A Response to the Comments on the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe.
World. pp. 59-70.
January 27, 2016
Texts suggested by Prof. Dr. Fabian Schäfer and PD Dr. Thomas Meyer
Kuki Shūzō (1932): “Contingency”. In: Japanese Philosophy. A Sourcebook (J. W. Heisig, T. P. Kasulis, & J. C. Maraldo, Eds.). Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2011: 830–849.
Wetz, Franz Josef: Die Begriffe "Zufall" und "Kontingenz". In: Kontingenz (von Graevenitz, G. & Marquard, O., Eds.). München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1998: 27-34.
2015
December 9, 2015
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Philipp Balsiger
Adam B. Seligman, Robert P. Weller, Michael J. Puett, and Bennett Simon (2008): "Introduction", "“Ritual and the Subjunctive”". In: Ritual and its Consequences. An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity, Oxford UP, pp. 3-15, pp. 17-42.
November 18, 2015
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Philipp Balsiger
„Comparative Philosophy : Chinese and Western“. In: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
November 4, 2015
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Philipp Balsiger
Vincent Shen (2010): "Intercultural Philosophy, Mutual Waitui and Chinese Philosophy in the World of Globalization". In: Intercultural Philosophy. New Aspects and Methods, (Fritz G. Wallner, Florian Schmidsberger, Franz Martin Wimmer, eds.), Culture and Knowledge, Vol. 11. Frankfurt (Main): Peter Lang, 41–103.
June 10, 2015
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Philipp Balsiger
Eliade, Mircea (1959): "The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion". Orlando:
Harcourt, Inc., pp. 68-113 (Chapter Two, "Sacred Time and Myths").
May 27, 2015
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner
Solomon, Robert C. (2003): "On Fate and Fatalism". In: Philosophy East & West, Vol.
53, No. 4, pp. 435-454.
April 15, 2015
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner
Sarah Iles Johnston (2005): "Introduction: Divining Divination". Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination. Boston: Brill, pages 1-28.
January 21, 2015
Texts suggested by Philipp Winkler, BA
Postone, Moishe (1993): "Time, Labor and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of
Marx's Critical Theory". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 200-216.
Landes, David S. (1983): Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern
World. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, pp. 15-36.
January 07, 2015
Texts suggested by Prof. Dr. Philipp Balsiger
Albrow, Martin (2014): "Global Age Essays on Social and Cultural Change". Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, pp. 203-218.
2014
December 10, 2014
Text suggested:
Project description of the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities.
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November 26, 2014
Text suggested by Rolf Scheuermann
Werner, Michael; Zimmermann, Bénédicte (2006): "Beyond Comparison: Histoire Croisée and the Challenge of Reflexivity". In: History and Theory, Vol. 45 (February 2006), pp. 30-50.
November 12, 2014
Texts suggested by Prof. Dr. Andreas Nehring
Patton, Kimberley C. “Juggling Torches: Why We Still Need Comparative Religion.” In: A Magic Still Dwells: Comparative Religion in the Postmodern Age. Edited by Kimberley C. Patton and Benjamin C. Ray, pp. 153–71. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Jensen, Jeppe Sinding: "Why Magic? It's Just Comparison." In: Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 2004, Vol. 16, pp. 45-60.
October 29, 2014
Texts suggested by Prof. Dr. Andreas Nehring
Patton, Kimberley C. “Juggling Torches: Why We Still Need Comparative Religion.” In: A Magic Still Dwells: Comparative Religion in the Postmodern Age. Edited by Kimberley C. Patton and Benjamin C. Ray, 153–71. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Smith, Jonathan Z. “In Comparison a Magic Dwells.” In: A Magic Still Dwells: Comparative Religion in the Postmodern Age. Edited by Kimberley C. Patton and Benjamin C. Ray, 23–44. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
October 8, 2014
Texts suggested by Dr. Ulrike Ludwig
Reckwitz, Andreas (2002): "Toward a Theory of Social Practices: A Development in Culturalist Theorizing". European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 243-263.
Reckwitz, Andreas (2003): "Grundelemente einer Theorie sozialer Praktik: Eine sozialtheoretische Perspektive". Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Vol. 32, No. 4, 2003, pp. 282-301
July 2, 2014
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Robert LaFleur
Sahlins, Marshall (1983): "Other Times, Other Customs: The Anthropology of History". In: American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 85, No. 3, pp. 517-544.
July 2, 2014
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Robert LaFleur
Sahlins, Marshall (1983): "Other Times, Other Customs: The Anthropology of History". In: American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 85, No. 3, pp. 517-544.
June 11, 2014
Text suggested by Prof. Dr. Philipp Balsiger
Toulmin, Stephen (1961): "Foresight and Understanding: An Enquiry into the Aims of Science". Hutchinson: London, pp. 13-43.
May 20, 2014
Texts suggested by Prof. Dr. Andreas Nehring
Koselleck, Reinhart (1989): "'Space of Experience' and 'Horizon
of Expectation': Two Historical Categories". In: Koselleck, Futures
Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time. Translated and with an
Introduction by Keith Tribe, p. 255-275. New York: Columbia
University Press. First published as "'Erfahrungsraum' und
'Erwartungshorizont' - zwei historische Kategorien", in: Soziale
Bewegung und politische Verfassung. Beiträge zur Geschichte der
modernen Welt, hg. von Ulrich Engelhardt, Volker Selin, Horst Stuke
(Industrielle Welt, Sonderband Werner Conze zum 31. Dezember 1975),
Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 1976, S. 13-33.
May 06, 2014
Texts suggested by Prof. Dr. Robert LaFleur
Casey, Edward S. (2001): "Between Geography and Philosophy: What Does It Mean to Be in the Place-World?". In: Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 91, No. 4 (Dec., 2001), pp.683-693.
Casey, Edward S. (2001): "On Habitus and Place: Responding to My Critics". In: Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 91, No. 4 (Dec., 2001), pp.716-723.
April 15, 2014
Texts suggested by Prof. Dr. Andreas Nehring
Ricoer, Paul (1976): "History and Hermeneutics". In: The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 73, No. 19 (Nov. 14, 1976), pp. 683-695.
March 27, 2014
Texts suggested by Prof. Dr. Andreas Nehring
Frankfurt, Harry G. (1971): "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person". In: The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 68, No. 1 (Jan. 14, 1971), pp. 5-20.
March 18, 2014
Texts suggested by Prof. Dr. Lisa Raphals
Sorabji, Richard (2006): Self: Ancient and Modern Insights about Individuality, Life, and Death. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, S. 1-31
February 12, 2014
Texts suggested by Prof. Dr. Hon Tze-ki and Prof. Dr. Robert LaFleur
Ricoeur, Paul (1992): "Introduction. The Question of Selfhood.". In: Oneself as Another. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, p. 1-25.
Ricoeur, Paul (1992): "First Study. 'Person' and Identifying Reference. A Semantic Approach.". In: Oneself as Another. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, p. 27-39.
January 28, 2014
Texts suggested by Prof. Dr. Andreas Nehring
Parmentier, Richard J. (1994): Comparison, Pragmatics, and
Interpretation in the Comparative Philosophy of Religions. In: Frank E.
Reynolds, David Tracy (Eds.): Religion and Practical Reason: New Essays
in the Comparative Philosophy of Religions. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, pp.
407–440.
Nehring, Andreas (2011): On the Communication of Sacred Texts:
Intercultural Comparison or Intercultural Encounter. In: David Cheetham,
et al. (Eds.): Interreligious Hermeneutics in Pluralistic Europe:
Between Texts and People. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 381–396.
January 7, 2014
Texts suggested by Prof. Dr. Andreas Nehring
Winch, Peter (1964): "Understanding a Primitive Society". In: American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 307-324.
2013
December 17, 2013
Texts suggested by Dr. Bruno Godefroy
Kantorowicz, Ernst H. (1957): The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political
Theory. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 273-313.
November 19, 2013
Texts suggested by Prof. Dr. Andreas Nehring
Laclau, Ernesto (2007 [1996]): Emancipation(s). London: Verso, pp. 20-46.
Laclau, Ernesto (2002): Emanzipation und Differenz. Aus dem Englischen von Oliver
Marchart. Wien-Berlin: Verlag Turia+Kant, S. 45-78.
November 5, 2013
Texts suggested by Prof. Dr. Andreas Nehring
Eliade, Mircea (1989): The Myth of the Eternal Return or, Cosmos and History. Translated from the French by Willard R. Trask. London: Arkana, pp. 139-162.
Allen, Douglas: "Eliade and History". In: The Journal of Religion, Vol. 68, No.
4, (Oct. 1988), pp. 545-565.
June 25, 2013
Texts suggested by Prof. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich, Bruno Godefroy and Philipp Hünnebeck
Koselleck, Reinhart (2004): "Historia Magistra Vitae: The Dissolution of the
Topos into the Perspective of a Modernized Historical Process". In: Koselleck,
Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time. Translated and with an
Introduction by Keith Tribe, p. 26-42. New York: Columbia University Press. First
published as "Historia Magistry Vitae. Über die Auflösung des Topos im Horizont
neuzeitlich bewegter Geschichte",in: Natur und Geschichte, Karl Löwith zum 70.
Geburtstag, hg. von Hermann Braun und Manfred Riedel, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1967,
S. 196-219.
Koselleck, Reinhart (1989): "'Space of Experience' and 'Horizon of
Expectation': Two Historical Categories". In: Koselleck, Futures Past: On the
Semantics of Historical Time. Translated and with an Introduction by Keith Tribe,
p. 255-275. New York: Columbia University Press. First published as "'Erfahrungsraum' und 'Erwartungshorizont' - zwei historische Kategorien", in:
Soziale Bewegung und politische Verfassung. Beiträge zur Geschichte der modernen
Welt, hg. von Ulrich Engelhardt, Volker Selin, Horst Stuke (Industrielle Welt,
Sonderband Werner Conze zum 31. Dezember 1975), Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 1976, S.
13-33.
May 28, 2013
Texts suggested by Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider
Löwith, Karl (1949): Meaning in History. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, p. 1-19 and p. 191-207
Löwith, Karl (1963): "Das Verhängnis des Fortschritts". In: Der Mensch
in mitten der Geschichte. Philosophische Bilanz des 20. Jahrhunderts. S.
320-338.
April 9, 2013
Texts suggested by Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner
Dumézil, Georges (1984):"...Le Moyne noir en gris dedans Varennes": Sotie
nostradamique suivie d'un divertissement sur les dernières paroles de
Socrate Paris: Gallimard, 1984
March 12, 2013
Texts suggested by Philipp Winkler
Marx, Karl (1989): Collected Works: Vol. 24. Marx and Engels: 1874-83. London: Lawrence & Wishart, p.196-201, p. 346-371.
Marx, Karl (1989): Collected Works: Vol. 32. Karl Marx: 1861-63. London: Lawrence & Wishart, p.374-391.
Marx, Karl (1973): Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Rough Draft). Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, p.690-695; p. 699-712.
January 22, 2013
Texts suggested by Prof. Dr. Joachim Gentz
Blumenberg, Hans (1981): Die Lesbarkeit der Welt. Suhrkamp, pp. 9-21.
Kuzniar, Alice A. (1986): Signs of the Future: “Reading (in) Lavater’s Aussichten”
2012
December 11, 2012
Texts suggested by Dr. Oskar Kurer and Prof. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich
Mill, John Stuart (1882): A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific InvestigationIn: Harper & Brothers: New York, p. 631-652.
Kurtz, Joachim (2011): "The Future Cannot Begin: Temporal Structures in Modern Society". In: Volume 1: Discovery of Chinese Logic. Leiden, NLD: Brill, p 149-154.
November 20, 2012
Texts suggested by Prof. Dr. Fabrizio Pregadio
Coomaraswamy, Ananda K.: “Time and Eternity“, in Artibus Asiae, pp. 1-140.
October 23, 2012
Texts suggested by Prof. Scott Davis and Prof. Thomas Fröhlich
Plessner, Helmuth (1975): Die Stufen des Organischen und der Mensch: Einleitung in die philosophische Anthropologie. Berlin: de Gryter, p.321-341.
Luhmann, Niklas (1976): "The Future Cannot Begin: Temporal Structures in Modern Society". In: Social Research, Vol. 43, No. 1, p.130-152.
October 2, 2012
Texts suggested by Hans Christian Lehner and Andreas Holndonner
Hahn, Alois (2003): Erinnerung und Prognose: Zur Vergegenwärtigung von Vergangenheit und Zukunft. Opladen: Leske+Budrich
Curry, Patrick (2003): Introduction. In: Curry, Patrick (ed.): Astrology, Science and Society: Historical Essays. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. p. 1-4
North, J.D. (2003): Medieval Concepts of Celestial Influence: A Survey. In: Curry, Patrick (ed.): Astrology, Science and Society: Historical Essays. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. p. 5-17
July 3, 2012
Texts suggested by Dr. Julia Eva Wannenmacher
Marjorie Reeves, The Development of Apocalyptic Thought: Medieval Attitudes, in: C. A. PATRIDES, J. WITTREICH (Hg.): The Apocalypse in English Renaissance Thought and Literature (Manchester 1984) S. 40-72, neu in: dies.: The Prophetic Sense of History in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Ashgate 1999)
Bernard McGinn, The Apocalyptic Imagination in the Middle Ages, in: Jan A. AERTSEN, Martin PICKAVÉ (Hg.): Ende und Vollendung. Eschatologische Perspektiven im Mittelalter (Miscellanea Mediaevalia 29, Berlin - New York 2001) S. 79-94
June 12, 2012
Texts suggested by Song Xiaokun and Philipp Hünnebeck
Jaspers, Karl (1955): Vom Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte. S. 137-166.
May 15, 2012
Texts suggested by Christoph König
Szondi, Peter (2011): "Schleiermachers Hermeneutik heute"
In: Szondi, Schriften, Band II, S. 106-130.
Szondi, Peter (1975): "Bemerkungen zur Forschungslage der literarischen Hermeneutik"
In: Szondi, Einführung in die literarische Hermeneutik, S. 404-408.
Szondi, Peter (1995): "Schleiermacher's Hermeneutics Today"
In: Introduction to Literary Hermeneutics, S. 95-113.
April 3, 2012
Texts suggested by Prof. Philipp Balsiger
Zandvoort, Henk (1995): "Concepts of Interdisciplinarity and Environmental Science". In: Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Science and the Humanities, 1995, Vol. 45, p. 45-68.
March 13, 2012
Texts suggested by Dr. Matthias Riedl
Schmitt, Carl (1996) [1922]: Politische Theologie, pp. 43-54. /
Schmitt, Carl (1985): Political Theology, pp. 37-52.
Hollerich, Michael (2004): Carl Schmitt
February 7, 2012
Texts suggested by Katrin Bauer
Lakatos, Imre (1970): History of Science and Its Rational Reproductions. In: PAS, Proceeedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Volume 1970, pp. 91-136.
January 17, 2012
Texts suggested by Prof. Stefano Rapisarda and Prof. Chu Ping-yi
Feyerabend, Paul (1978): Science in a free Society, pp. 73-122.
Veyne, Paul (1988): Did the Greeks believe in their Myths?, pp. 117-129.
2011
November 22, 2011
Session 12 (texts suggested by Stefano Rapisarda)
Theodor W. Adorno: The Stars down to Earth and Other Essays on the Irrational in Culture
pp. 46-59 and 69-82.
October 11, 2011
Session 11 (text suggested by Richard Landes)
Kari Palonen: "The History of Concepts as a Style of Political Theorizing: Quentin Skinner’s and Reinhart Koselleck’s Subversion of Normative Political Theory",
European Journal of Political Theory, July 2002 vol. 1 no. 1, pp. 91-106.
September 20, 2011
Session 10 (text suggested by Oskar Kurer)
Capoccia, Giovanni; Kelemen, R. Daniel: "The Study of Critical Junctures: Theory, Narrative, and Counterfactuals in Historical Institutionalism".
In: World Politics – Volume 59, Number 3, April 2007, pp. 341-369.
July 26, 2011
Session 9 (text suggested by Liying Wang and Thomas
Fröhlich)
Wetz, Franz Josef: Die Begriffe "Zufall" und "Kontingenz".
In: Gerhart von
Graevenitz and Odo Marquard: Kontingenz. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1998, 27-34
Makropoulos, Michael: Modernität als Kontingenzkultur: Konturen eines Konzepts.
In: Gerhart von
Graevenitz and Odo Marquard: Kontingenz. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1998, 27-34
July 5, 2011
Session 8 (text suggested by Thomas Frölich)
Rescher, Nicholas: Predicting the Future. An Introduction to the Theory of Forecasting
Albany: State University of New York Press 1998, 11-17, (optional reading: 19-33), 37-42, 191-199, 202-208, and 238-246.
May 24, 2011
Session 7 (texts suggested by Richard Landes)
Erich Fromm: The Fear of Freedom
London: Ark Paperbacks 1942, 19-32.
Hu Hsien-chin: "Chinese Concepts of Face."
In: American Anthropologist 1944, 45-64.
Richard Landes: Two chapters on "Honour and Shame."
Book draft, forthcoming
Wolfram Eberhard: Guilt and Sin in Traditional China.
Berkeley: University of California Press 1967. (pp. 1-11, 117-125)
May 17, 2011
Session 6 (texts suggested by Wang Liying)
Isaiah Berlin: "Two Concepts of Liberty."
In: Isaiah Berlin: Four Essays on Liberty, Oxford: Oxford UP 1969, 118-173.
Gao Xingjian: "The Voice of the Individual."
In: Gao Xingjian, Mabel Lee (trsl.): The Case for Literature. London: Fourth Estate 2007, 126-140.
April 19, 2011
Session 5 (text suggested by Sophia Katz)
Sor-Hoon Tan: "Authoritative Freedom."
In: Sor-Hoon Tan: Confucian Democracy. A Deweyan Reconstruction. New York: SUNY, 2004, 157-199.
February 8, 2011
Session 4 (texts suggested by Lionel Jensen)
Carlo Ginzburg: "Morelli, Freud and Sherlock Holmes. Clues and Scientific Method."
In: History Workshop, No. 9 (Spring), p. 5-36.
January 25, 2011
Session 3 (texts suggested by Katrin Bauer)
Stephen Toulmin: Foresight and Understanding. An enquiry into the aims of Science.
London: Hutchinson 1961.
2010
December 14, 2010
Session 2 (texts suggested by Michael Lackner)
Elena Esposito: Die Fiktion der wahrscheinlichen Realität.
Aus dem Italienischen von Nicole Reinhardt, Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp 2007.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Fortuna und Kalkül. Zwei mathematische Belustigungen.
Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp 2009.
November 16, 2010
Session 1 (text suggested by Thomas Fröhlich)
Karl Popper: The Poverty of Historicism.
New York: Harper Torchbooks 1964.