Prof. Dr. phil.

Wolfgang Welsch

Online Texts

Abstracts

Reason and transition
Vernunft heute [Reason Today]
Reason: Traditional and Contemporary or Why should we still speak of reason after all?
Artificial Paradises? Considering the World of Electronic Media – and Other Worlds
Subjektsein heute. Zum Zusammenhang von Subjektivität und Transversalität [Today's Subject. On the Link between Subjectivity, Plurality and Transversality]
New Scenarios of the Aesthetic
Transculturality – the Puzzling Form of Cultures Today
Strukturwandel der Geisteswissenschaften [Changes in the design of "Geisteswissenschaften"]
Medienwelten und andere Welten [Media Worlds and Other Worlds]
Going Global or Transcultural?
The Changing Form of Cultures: Towards a Transcultural Design
Virtual to Begin With?
Wisdom
Epistemischer Anthropozentrismus [Epistemic Anthropocentrism]
Inwiefern Heidegger – bei aller Kritik – der modernen Denkform verhaftet blieb [Why Heidegger – despite his critique of it – stayed within the confines of the modern form of thought]
Anthropologie im Umbruch. Das Paradigma der Emergenz [Anthropology on the move. The paradigm of emergence]
Das Rätsel der menschlichen Besonderheit. Betrachtungen nach Darwin [The riddle of human specificity. Considerations after Darwin]
A Return of Beauty?
From the modernist anthropic mindset to a future evolutionist mindset
On the very idea of Transculturality
Monads or Nomads?
Wasser oder Wind – Leonardo da Vincis Zeichnungen Windsor 12377–12386 neu interpretiert
Water or Wind? Leonardo da Vinci's drawings Windsor 12377–12386 reinterpreted

Papers

Transculturality – the Puzzling Form of Cultures Today
Aesthetics beyond Aesthetics
Aestheticization Processes: Phenomena, Distinctions and Prospects
Rationality and Reason Today
Richard Rorty: Philosophy beyond Argument and Truth?
Die Kunst, mit Unsicherheit zu leben [The Art of Living with Uncertainty]
Nietzsche on Reason
Information Superhighway or Highway One?
Virtual to Begin With?
Philosophy: Specific Origin and Universal Aspirations (traditional, modern, future)
Becoming Oneself
Reason: Traditional and Contemporary or Why should we still speak of reason after all?
Philosophie und Kunst – Eine wechselhafte Beziehung [Philosophy and Art – an Ambiguous Relationship]
Reflecting the Pacific Ocean
Animal Aesthetics
Rethinking identity in the age of globalization – a transcultural perspective
Sport – Viewed Aesthetically, and Even as Art?
On Acquisition and Possession of Commonalities
Was war die Postmoderne – und was könnte aus ihr werden? What was Postmodernism and What might it become?
A Return of Beauty?
Kreativität durch Zufall. Das große Vorbild der Evolution und einige künstlerische Parallelen [Creativity by Chance – The Great Model of Evolution and some Artistic Parallels]
Der Mensch – und immer nur der Mensch [The Human – Over and Over Again]
Zur universalen Schätzung des Schönen [On the Universal Appreciation of Beauty]
Just what is it that makes homo sapiens so different, so appealing? [A Critique of Michael Tomasello's Views]
Was ist eigentlich Transkulturalität? [What is Transculturality?]
Imagination on the Move
At Point Zero of Creation
Standbeine dürfen nicht zum Klumpfuß werden [Interview on transculturality and music]
Zur geistigen Situation der Zeit – ein Weckruf [On the intellectual situation of our time – a wakening call]
Wie wir auf Konsistenz aus sind – und warum [How and why we strive for consistency]
Kunst verlangt ästhetischen Sinn [Art requires aesthetic sensibility]
The Anthropic Thought – Form of Modernity – Exposition and Critique
Man and World – Seen in the Light of Evolution
Wie kann Kunst der Wirklichkeit nicht gegenüberstehen, sondern in sie verwickelt sein? [How can art be entangled with reality – instead of being opposed to it?]
Aesthetics beyond Aesthetics – reconsidered
Zum animalischen Ursprung von Ästhetik und Musikantentum [On the animal origin of aesthetics and musical practice]
Protokulturelle und transkulturelle Dimensionen der Kunst [Protocultural and transcultural dimensions of art]
Vom anthropischen Weltbild der Moderne zu einem künftigen evolutionären Weltbild [From the modernist anthropic mindset to a future evolutionist mindset]
Postmodernism – Posthumanism – Evolutionary Anthropology
Schiller revisited: "Beauty is Freedom in Appearance" – Aesthetics as a Challenge to the Modern Way of Thinking
Schillers Ästhetik neu betrachtet: "Schönheit ist Freiheit in der Erscheinung" – Ästhetik als Herausforderung der modernen Denkweise
Bodily changes during the proto-cultural period and their ongoing impact on culture
Stille und Erwachen (Dōgen) [Silence and Awakening (Dōgen)]
Protokulturelle und transkulturelle Dimensionen der Kunst [Protocultural and Transcultural Dimensions of Art]
Aesthetics Beyond Aesthetics
Transkulturalität in der Geschichte – gezeigt an Beispielen der Kunst [Transculturality in history – demonstrated via examples from the arts]
Warum hat Hegel Rossini so hoch geschätzt?
Civitas oder Kosmos?
Music – the True Lingua Franca
Postmoderne: vordergründige Ablehnung, untergründiger Erfolg
Höhenflug und Misere des Bauhauses im Kontext der Moderne betrachtet
Art versus Nature? Opposites, unity or interpenetration?
Art Addressing the Anthropocene
Wasser oder Wind - Leonardo da Vincis Zeichnungen Windsor 12377–12386 neu interpretiert
Water or Wind? Leonardo da Vinci's drawings Windsor 12377–12386 reinterpreted
Nature versus Culture?
Transculturality in literature: a phenomenon as old as it is current
Strukturalismus
Der absolute Wille zu begreifen

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