»Philosophizing is the reconciliation of a revelation that never took place. The path to it is full of astute human wisdom«, relates Marcuse in his ›History of Philosophy‹ in which he makes his readers aware of the »great harvest of thought«.

The more globalised the world becomes, the more vulnerable we are as human beings. Homo sapiens knows this, and yet still we carry on as always. We eat too much meat, we use pesticides, we drive cars every day. But one day all those cute kitties, good-natured cattle and shy squirrels will launch a counterattack. Things will start happening very fast – and before long it will all be over. No more fun, no more day-to-day craziness, no more human beings.

Everyone wants justice – always for themselves, sometimes for others, rarely for everyone. But what is justice, and how is it obtained? Bernhard Schlink offers neither an ideal concept nor a general formula. His objective is more modest. His emphasis lies on the process, on how we must continually renew our search for fair solutions and how we can find them.

This is work, and this text is a guide on that path.

On the lives and thoughts of Meister Eckhart, Jan Hus, Martin Luther, Giordano Bruno, Baruch Spinoza, Blaise Pascal, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Leo Tolstoy and many more.

In time for the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses: This book puts the reformer into another perspective – the church and its critics throughout 20 centuries.

A vivid and lively read – packed full of knowledge.

The standard work – now made available again.

The Book of Heretics tells us about ›unsuccessful saints‹, as Walter Nigg calls them. With great empathy, he writes about seekers of the divine and the truth, internally liberated but expelled from the church, or leavers by choice. His subjects include ›witches‹ and Cathars, famous philosophers and theologians, writers and scholars.

»Heretics are often among the greatest pioneers of new ideas. Their contemporaries could often not yet understand them.«
Walter Nigg

English translation available.

Tomi Ungerer answers children’s questions with the irreverent wisdom of a great artist who has never forgotten his inner child. The column from ›Philosophie Magazine‹ – in book form for the first time. »Why am I not you, and why are you not me? Who created God? If someone hits me, is it ok to hit back? Why does money exist? Could it be that I am only dreaming my life? Is there such a thing as nothing? Why do we have to love others and not just ourselves?« The great philosophical questions remain the same, be it two thousand years ago or yesterday, whether we are eighty or eight years old. Tomi Ungerer, the world-famous artist and children’s book writer, is also an idiosyncratic thinker and an untiring champion against prejudice and narrow-mindedness. Children from France and Germany asked him their questions. Ungerer’s answers are surprising, cheeky, funny, thought-provoking – and always inspiring. A philosophy book that makes readers want to think – whether they are children or adults.

A dictionary for contemporaries with key words from ›anarchy‹ to ›togetherness.‹ Life's ABC by an epicurean lacking in illusion, a philanthropic pessimist, who seeks humanizing changes while allowing himself to be pushed before a cart filled with ideological baggage.

The texts presented in ›Thought Fugue‹ are records of works in progress: the typescripts, from Dürrenmatt's literary estate, of materials (each one a complete unit), as well as of all essays and stories, which he had planned for additional volumes of ›Materials‹ and which he expanded and revised numerous times between 1987 and the end of 1990. Each text presented here is the final version of the piece concerned. From the Contents: ›Prometheus‹, ›Thought Fugue‹, ›On Imagined Constructs and Emotional Universes with a Parable‹, ›The Dinosaurs and the Law‹, ›Dramaturgy of Imaginative Power‹, ›The Attempt‹, ›Cabala of Physics‹, ›Farewell from the Theatre‹, ›Postscript to Achterloo IV‹.

The question of happiness is as old as the human race. Mainstream philosophy has only ceased to ask it. However, striving for happiness is the principle occupation of man. Marcuse tells stories about the quest for happiness: about Job, about Hans in Luck; about happy pessimists Salomon, Seneca and Schopenhauer; about Thomas Morus, Robert Owen and others who believed in a better, happier society and about Epicurus and his epigones.

Dürrenmatt's essays are among his most impressive achievements. Their range alone is astonishing: he wrote with authority and charm about art, literature, philosophy, politics, and the theater. His best known essays are ›Theatre Problems‹, ›The Winter War in Tibet‹, ›The Bridge‹, ›The Brain‹, ›Vinter‹ and ›Monster Essay on Justice and Law‹.

Dürrenmatt's essays are among his most impressive achievements. Their range alone is astonishing: he wrote with authority an charm about art, literature, philosophy, politics, and the theater. His best known essays are ›Theatre Problems‹, ›The Winter War in Tibet‹, ›The Bridge‹, ›The Brain‹, ›Vinter‹ and ›Monster Essay on Justice and Law‹.

Dürrenmatt's essays are among his most impressive achievements. Their range alone is astonishing: he wrote with authority and charm about art, literature, philosophy, politics, and the theater. His best known essays are ›Theatre Problems‹, ›The Winter War in Tibet‹, ›The Bridge‹, ›The Brain‹, ›Vinter‹ and ›Monster Essay on Justice and Law‹.