Nietzsche’s Place in Nineteenth Century German Philosophy

The Role of the German Researchers in the Formation of Islamic Art Studies

In the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the increasing interest of the Europeans in the culture of the East, the first articles on the Islamic art and culture were appeared in German-speaking countries. In the mid nineteenth century, some entries in German encyclopedias were devoted to Islamic art, and from the end of the century, the first monographs on Islamic architecture and orname...

Unity in Difference – Difference in Unity: Heraclitus and the Truth of Hermeneutics

Introduction In an entry in Nietzsche’s notebooks from the eighties, the entire spiritual movement of German philosophy is described as guided by nostalgia, by Heimweh. It is a nostalgia for “the best”, Nietzsche writes, which rejects the present in favor of the past. Ultimately, it is a will to recover Greek philosophy in general, and in particular the philosophy of the presocratics, that “bes...

German idealism and the development of psychology in the nineteenth century.

Muslim Intellectuals and the Perennial Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

This paper will examine how Muslim intellectuals, as a result of their attachment to the doctrine of Divine Unity (taw¤hīd), the Quran, Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad, and the doctrines and methods of Sufism, were largely responsible for the restating of the perennial philosophy in the West in the twentieth century. The article consists of four sections: an introduction to the term 'philosophia...

Decolonizing German theory: an introduction

This special issue is concerned with German theory, which is to say, theory generated in German cultural and linguistic spaces, in the territories claimed by the various German states over time, and among German-speaking emigrants and refugees. ‘Theory’ is defined here to encompass the space shared by philosophy, social theory, and cultural theory*/the theory-space that is most relevant for the...