Cultural History & Cultural Theory
Sovereignty and Reason
Posthumous Writings. Section IV: Lectures
Universalism
Considering the well-being of all people when making moral and political decisions – for many people today, this is at least seen as an ideal. But such a humanist ethics was not always a given,...
Spanish world rights (Sal Terrae)
Post-
The Barb of the Digital
Chinese simplex rights (Orient Publishing Center)
Defective Debates
There are a whole host of topics that demonstrate just...
Adorno's Heirs
Chinese simplex rights (Yilin)
The Superiority of the Subjugated
English world rights (Fordham UP)
Progress and Regression
The abolition of slavery, the introduction of social security systems, and the criminalisation of rape within marriage are commonly regarded as instances of social progress – of change for...
English world rights (Harvard UP), Spanish world rights (Katz), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House), France (Seuil), Italy (Lit/Castelvecchi), Korea (Saemulgyul), Greece (Nissos)
Not Everyone Can Be a Scholar
People have laughed and thought, told stories and been educated in Yiddish since the High Middle Ages. On the last pages of scholarly books we find recipes, spells and prayers. Copies of rhymed epics were circulated for communal recital. A bundle of documents from Cairo dating to 1382 testifies to the fact that Jewish people were quite familiar with German literature and adapted it in a...
The Narrative Brain
English world rights (Yale UP), Spanish world rights (Sexto Piso), Italy (Lit/Castelvecchi), Korea (Eco-Livres), Hungary (Typotex), Bulgaria (Funtasy)
Cool Conduct
English translation of the original edition available through University of California Press, Turkey (Metis)
The Nature of Man
»Prose of the World«
Philosopher and translator, critic and writer, art agent and encyclopaedist: Denis Diderot, born in Champagne in 1713, died in Paris in 1784, was one of the defining figures of the movement that...
English world rights (Standford UP), Spanish world rights (Universidad Iberoamericana), Russia (NLO), Brazilian Portuguese rights (UNESP)
This Side of Eden
Some people experience the presence of something divine when they listen to a piece of music. Others feel like they are possessed by a strange power when speaking in tongues or they feel a...
Romania (Lebada Neagra)
In Defence of the Human Being
With the advancements of artificial intelligence, the digitalisation of the lived-in world and the reduction of the mind to neuronal processes humans seem more and more like a product of data and...
English world rights (Oxford UP), Chinese simplex rights (Commercial Press), Spanish world rights (Tecnos), Czech Republic (Dauphin)
Postheroic Heroes
Nowadays, heroic figures are considered suspicious: too much pathos, too much oozing masculinity, too much moral superiority. We live, they say, in post-heroic times. However, the fascination with...
Spanish world rights (Alianza), Chinese simplex rights (Peking UP)
This Too a History of Philosophy
The new book by Jürgen Habermas is also a history of philosophy. Employing a genealogical style it examines how today’s dominant forms of western post-metaphysical thought came into being. Using...
English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Trotta), Chinese simplex rights (Social Sciences Academic Press), Brazilian Portuguese rights (UNESP), Portuguese rights (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian), Arabic world rights (Al-Kamel), France (Gallimard), Italy (Feltrinelli), Korea (Nanam), Poland (Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Book Club (wbg)
Aspects of Contemporary Right-Wing Radicalism
On 6 April 1967 Theodor W. Adorno gave a lecture at the University of Vienna as a guest of the Socialist Students of Austria, a lecture which, from today’s point of view, is not only of historical...
English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Taurus/PRH), Catalan rights (Afers), Brazilian Portuguese rights (UNESP), Portuguese rights (Edições 70), France (Flammarion), Italy (Marsilio), Netherlands (Octavo), Denmark (Klim), Sweden (Nirstedt), Norway (Cappelen Damm Akademisk), Finland (Vastapaino), Korea (Moonji), Japan (Horinouchi Shuppan), Poland (Znak), Czech Republic (Pulchra), Slovakia (HADART), Romania (Curtea Veche), Croatia (TIM press), Serbia (Karpos), Slovenia (Založba Sophia), Turkey (Metis), Greece (Nissos), North Macedonia (Artkonekt), Israel (Hakkibutz Hameuchad – Sifriyat Poalim)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg), German Audiobook (CC Live)