The volume is a comprehensive evaluation of epistemic, practical, veridical issues from the perspective of every kind of failure, disruption, or confusion that comes under the general rubric of "error." The analysis is not limited to the element of negativity, but rather, an inquiry about the extent that error can be transformed into a starting point or precondition for successful epistemic practices.
Despite the common notion of a "post-metaphysical age" in philosophy, a new, genuine desire for metaphysics has become apparent in international philosophical discourse. This volume offers a reflective overview of the current international debate and reveals the historical and systematic diversity of metaphysical thought.
Main description: Gegenstand des Bandes ist die Transformation und Neuformierung des Gesetzesbegriffs im Mittelalter. Untersucht wird das Zusammentreffen von antiken und lokalen Rechtstraditionen mit den Offenbarungsreligionen Judentum, Christentum, Islam, die das geschriebene Gotteswort gleichfalls als Gesetz begreifen und die neuen Kulturen formen. Damit wird ein interdisziplinärer und interkultureller Blick auf die Rechtsdiskurse des Mittelalters gelenkt.
This volume casts a new light on Byzantium as a geographical and cultural intersection. For nearly a millennium, Byzantium was an important crossroads where cultures, people, and institutions from the entire Mediterranean area came together, not only because of its central(and, as a result, precarious) geographical situation, but also because of its prestige. Key subjects of interest explored by this volume include reciprocal cultural and epistemic processes of reception and transformation and the forms of knowledge associated with them. These forms of knowledge relate not only to particular objects of knowledge and the sciences, but also toorganizational structures. Andreas Speer und Philipp Steinkrüger, Universität zu Köln.
Dieser Band der Miscellanea Mediaevalia ist einem Jahr gewidmet: 1308. Die Wahl dieses Jahres scheint arbiträr, denn dieses Jahr zählt ‑ abgesehen von wenigen markanten Ereignissen wie dem Templerprozess oder dem Tod des Johannes Duns Scotus ‑ nicht zu den prominenten Jahren. Der Band wagt ein historiografisches Experiment, indem er gegenüber einem Entwicklungsmodell, das die Aufmerksamkeit auf vermeintliche Höhe- und Wendepunkte lenkt, sich jenen Momenten im Schlagschatten dieser "lauten" Ereignisse zuwendet. Die Fragestellung des Bandes, der auf die 36. Kölner Mediävistentagung zurückgeht, will daher neue Perspektiven eröffnen, indem sie einlädt, Sehgewohnheiten in Frage zu stellen, zu schärfen, zu verlängern ‑ anhand eines Jahres und auch über dieses Jahr und seine historische Peripherie hinaus. Die Aufmerksamkeit richtet sich, beginnend bei einer lokalen Detailaufnahme, auf verschiedene thematische und methodische Facetten: Ereigniswahrnehmung, auch mit Blick auf die Erschließung neuer Welten, Johannes Duns Scotus in Kontext, Theologie in Paris, Philosophie in Italien, Medizin und Poetik, die Grenzen Europas, Orthodoxie und Häresie, 1308 im Spiegel der Künste, aus jüdischer und islamischer Sicht. (Produktinfo Verlag)
"The relationship between Jews and Christians and between Judaism and Christianity during the 13th and 14th century is a matter of concrete and contingent historical circumstances; and its ideological elements are inherent in pre-modern Catholicism and pre-modern Rabbinical Judaism. Indeed, both St. Paul and the Rabbis are typical revolutionary figures of late antiquity who present themselves as the authentic interpreters of old sacred writings. Throughout the ages, the interpretation of the Sacra pagina remained at the very center of Chris-tian and Jewish theology involving hidden or manifest polemics against the rival interpretation. Still, this fundamental and fixed element did not prevent dramatic changes in the concrete historical manifestations of Judaism and Christianity. Nowhere else, the parallel developments in both religions were as spectacular, often even traumatic, as in Italy, France, Spain, and Germany, where Jewish communities had existed since late antiquity; and where Jews and Christians had developed stable forms of coexistence. These were severely shaken by the dramatic events that marked the ascendancy of European hegemony beginning with the first crusade at the end of the 11thcentury. "
The series MISCELLANEA MEDIAEVALIA was founded by Paul Wilpert in 1962 and since then has presented research from the Thomas Institute of the University of Cologne. The cornerstone of the series is provided by the proceedings of the biennial Cologne Medieval Studies Conferences, which were established over 50 years ago by Josef Koch, the founding director of the Institute. The interdisciplinary nature of these conferences is reflected in the proceedings. The MISCELLANEA MEDIAEVALIA gather together papers from all disciplines represented in Medieval Studies - medieval history, philosophy, theology, together with art and literature, all contribute to an overall perspective of the Middle Ages.
Meister Eckhart spent some twenty years in the Dominican convent in Erfurt. This volume addresses the need for more research into Eckhart's time in Erfurt. The 27 papers address the important trends in research into Eckhart and inquire into the consequences these have for our assessment of Meister Eckhart
Main description: Using key topics of Thomasian philosophy (and theology) the interpretations provide an introduction to the overall conception of one of Thomas Aquinas' central works, the Summa theologiae. It is a comprehensive handbook which is intended not only for a specialist readership but equally for those with a more general interest in the subject.