Philosophy

This volume represents studies on archaeological, textual, and theoretical aspects of urbanism in the ancient Levant during the Iron Age (ca. 1200-600 BCE). In addition, the contributions examine urban-related phenomena in other cultures, regions, and periods, providing a broad overview of evidence for ancient cities in antiquity from both archaeological and textual perspectives.

Phenomenology has a religiophilosophical tenet that everything is what it is. In this work, Lukas Ohly shows that it authenticates Husserl's worldliness, the abyssal ground in Heidegger's thinking on the history of being and Arendt's inaccessibility of common sense. Its only accessibility lies in faith.

This volume explores six lyric poems by Mesomedes, a Cretan court musician to Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, addressing Greek traditional and »new« gods. Featuring a new edition of the Greek texts with annotated translations into English and Italian, it also includes essays revealing the cultural and religious dynamics of the Roman Empire in the second century AD.

The contributors of this volume explore new positions that have the potential to reorient the search for ethics in a post-religious era. They attempt to identify the process of world creation in art and literature as a decidedly ethical-hermeneutical endeavour.