Philosophy

The Herder Yearbook offers a selection of current research on Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803). Now for the seventeenth time, this volume presents contributions on Herder’s understanding of nature, the influence of English and Scottish philosophy on Herder, his reception of the English satirist Jonathan Swift, four book reviews as well as the continuation of the Herder bibliography of primary and secondary literature.

This volume sheds light on the intellectual engagement with wealth in the various literary genres of the Hebrew Bible, Greek philosophical and Greek poetic literature, Jewish writings from the Hellenistic-Roman period, Qumran, the writings of the New Testament and the Early Church.

Research is currently discovering the Letter to the Ephesians as an independent voice on other topics than ecclesiology that were also of interest to Paul. The contributors to this volume take this increased interest into account and discuss Deutero-Paul's Christological design, his revision of the Corpus Paulinum and the Letter to the Colossians, his early Christian interpretation of Greek philosophy and science, and his anthropological concept.

Josef Franz Lindner tackles law's problem with metaphysics, arguing that jurisprudence should become aware of its self-empowering circles of structure and reflect more on its concept- and theory formations. Centre stage stands a plea for more metaphysical self-restraint within jurisprudence.