Rüdiger Zill

For more than three decades, Hans Blumenberg and Reinhart Koselleck maintained a correspondence that was characterized by mutual affection but also by distance. It shows two academic protagonists discuss the founding of universities and interdisciplinarity in times of university reform – and two sensitive scholars trying to communicate central aspects of their research: conceptual...

Hans Blumenberg wanted to be known by his philosophy alone, and as a private person remain invisible to the public. Yet we can understand his world only by also considering the turmoils of his lifetime.

Persecuted during National Socialism because of his Jewish mother, shaped by the Catholic milieu of his father and a humanistic elite secondary school in Lübeck, he is ultimately a...

From the early modern period and increasingly so since from the Enlightenment onwards, divine privilege of possessing unconditional truth has been challenged and made more democratic. The...