Body and religion are closely linked. The human body, which is the most direct level of human experience, is used to express and project religious ideas. For example, ablutions, head coverings, gender roles and body modifications are often religiously charged and integrated into a religious frame of reference. This volume brings together various disciplines that address the topic from a global and time-spanning perspective.
Published in 2025 by Ergon; ISBN: 978-3-98740-179-4

How can philosophy contribute to analysing and criticising racism? And how can we rethink philosophy on the basis of approaches and struggles critical of racism? These questions are controversially discussed in the current German-language debate. This volume takes stock of these discussions and brings a variety of methods, approaches and philosophical traditions into dialogue.

Every good work of history today contains at least some social history. The early structural history and historical social science of the 1970s had a hugely influential impact. This introduction traces their success, right through to contemporary cultural history. Why did social history fight against political and event history? How did its theoretical and methodological discussions enrich the discipline? What transformations does the inclusion of everyday, gender and cultural history entail?

In previously unpublished texts, Carl Friedrich Gethmann explores the formal and pragmatic conditions of knowledge and will formation and responds to contributions in which advanced students approach his work. The texts and replies unfold an insightful dialogue and are each devoted to different aspects of Gethmann's philosophy: the concept of protologics, anti-mentalism, the grammar of ascriptions, protoethics and applied questions of animal ethics.

In eight contributions, the volume addresses constellations of critical theory via history and genealogy, rationality and critique of rationality, rights and critique of rights, and theory and practice. Based on a reconstruction of transformations between “old” and “new” approaches, it opposes the high-profile narrative of the irreversibility of paradigm shifts in the history of the Frankfurt School.
Published in 2025 by Beltz Juventa; ISBN: 978-3-7799-9013-0

Consciousness arises in the brain, communication and action are based on neuronal processes. Does the neuronal basis of our consciousness stand in the way of freedom of action and will? On the contrary, it is the brain that renders freedom possible! Ulrich Krohs argues for this from a perspective of philosophy of nature. He takes into account empirical findings and theoretical approaches from biology, psychology and cognitive science and also keeps physics in mind.
Published in 2025 by Klostermann; ISBN: 978-3-465-04672-1

Situated at the crossroads between Athens, Boiotia, Megara, and Salamis, Eleusis was exposed to the changing fortunes in a connected world. From the Athenian perspective, Eleusis marked the fringes of their territory. From everybody else’s point of view, it was a destination or a gateway. In the midst of these itineraries, the Eleusinians had their own ideas about the world writ-large. This volume delves into the local horizon of the site, its agents and stakeholders, the stories that moved them, and the places where interactions took place.
Published in 2025 by Brill; ISBN: 978-90-04-71961-3

Altena Castle, picturesquely situated above the town of the same name on the River Lenne, is considered one of the most beautiful hilltop castles in Germany. The impressive fortifications date back to the 12th century and give today's visitors the feeling of immersing themselves in a medieval world. This volume looks at the controversial debate surrounding the remodelling of Altena Castle around 1900 against the wider backdrop of the “Castle Renaissance” and discusses the use of the castle after the construction phase.
Published in 2025 by Verlag für Regionalgeschichte; ISBN: 978-3-7395-1548-9

This volume makes available in English translation for the first time a series of hugely influential articles about Roman Republican politics which were all originally published in German. They represent a school of thought that has long been in dialogue with Anglophone research but has not always been accessible to all English-speakers, leaving many listening to only one side of a conversation. The contributions were part of a movement towards viewing Roman Republican politics more holistically, through the lens of political culture.
Published in 2025 by Cambridge University Press; ISBN: 978-1-00-951510-8

Parchment or paper? The choice between these two writing materials was available to people in Italy from 1100, to those north of the Alps from the thirteenth century. If we take them by their word, they preferred the traditional animal skin. But in the hands of writers, paper took over on a broad front. This study analyzes the quiet revolution quantitatively and qualitatively, and investigates why it was so silent.
Published in 2025 by De Gruyter; ISBN: 978-3-11-129474-2