Die Art, wie die Geschichtsphilosophie Giambattista Vicos Reflexionen uber Rechtsformen, Naturrecht und Sprache verknupft, bietet Anstoesse fur die heutigen Debatten um Rechtsstaatlichkeit und kulturelle Verschiedenheit. Die hier vorliegenden Beitrage kreisen um Vicos sprachbezogene Methode, beziehen die Diskussionen seines Zeitalters zu verschiedenen Gebieten ebenso ein wie Bezuge zu aktuellen Problemen. Inhaltlich liegt ein Schwerpunkt bei der Rechts- und Naturrechtsthematik, da ein erheblicher Teil der Texte zunachst bei der internationalen Tagung "Giambattista Vicos De Universi Juris Uno...

This book is above all an example of philosophical reflection in Africa, refuting traditional commonplaces concerning the continent. The texts comprising this volume disprove the misconceptions that Africa has never understood itself and has never contributed to the enrichment of knowledge, the development of rational thought, philosophy, the arts, science and technology as well as civilization. For the members of the recently established network Africa In-The-World, the contributions dealing with musical rhythms, dances and the continental humanist philosophy confirm that Africanisation is a...

This volume offers an interdisciplinary approach to some pivotal topics of (de-) colonization. It examines the early modern debate on just war, transatlantic conquest and slavery, followed by the shift of the debate in the 18th and 19th centuries towards assertions of racial hierarchies based on supposed matters of fact, and finally the philosophical discussion regarding decolonization. Two central themes emerge: first, the political circumstances and the exploitation of the available terminology resulted in the production of new meanings or "translations" during the 17th and 18th centuries,...