New Handbook of Basic Philosophical Concepts

In the tradition of the "Handbuch philosophischer Grundbegriffe" (Kösel publishing house, Munich), published about 30 years ago by Hermann Krings ( ), Hans-Michael Baumgartner ( ) and Christoph Wild, the "New" Handbook is committed to the idea of offering philosophy itself in the field of philosophical dictionaries and encyclopaedias instead of merely presenting an achieved level of philosophical knowledge encyclopaedically. In 208 articles - written by 172 authors - philosophical terms from all areas of philosophy, which can be identified as basic concepts, are subjected to a philosophical-critical examination based on the premise that concepts are not preconditions for thinking, but primarily its products. Because both the systematic approaches and perspectives chosen by the authors to explicate the basic critical concern are thereby