Subject Areas
Publications
The Verlag Karl Alber has numerous academic series in the fields of ethics/practical philosophy, phenomenology and philosophy of religion in its portfolio. Alber also publishes seven annuals. They are distinguished by the fact that – supervised by renowned editors – they continuously work on their philosophical field, stimulate discussions and inform about the current state of research. They are accompanied and supported by a broad-based academic advisory board.
Ethics and practical philosophy
In addition to the academic discussion of fundamental moral and ethical issues, this programme area includes current discussions on applied ethics and political philosophy, which it represents in the form of annuals, status reports, outstanding qualification publications and anthologies that are up-to-date in research.
Learn more about the seriesPhenomenology
From the beginning, phenomenology has been a focal point in Karl Alber’s programme, not only dealing with classical topics and authors, but also opening up new fields and interdisciplinary research perspectives, e.g. phenomenology and cognitive sciences, phenomenological anthropology, new phenomenology, phenomenology of life, etc.
Learn more about the seriesContemporary Philosophy
Our programme offers a forum for all systematically and historically relevant works that make a fundamental contribution to the current philosophical debate.
Learn more about the seriesPhilosophy of nature and biophilosophy
The concept of life or nature is articulated and problematised in various ways in three Alber series of publications, with a special focus here on the translation of approaches and discourses into neighbouring disciplines.
Learn more about the seriesPhilosophy of Religions
Our series of publications and annuals in this segment are dedicated to the scholarly exploration of concepts in the philosophy of religion and religious manifestations from secular, Christian, Jewish and Islamic perspectives.
Learn more about the seriesCultural philosophy
The series of publications collected here deal with the concept of culture, focusing in particular on developments in intellectual history and non-European manifestations of (inter-) cultural phenomena.
Learn more about the seriesInterdisciplinary philosophy
Philosophy as a professionalised basic reflection is well suited to give impulses to other disciplines in terms of content. In return, however, it is also ready to receive valuable impulses from these disciplines.
Learn more about the seriesHistory of Philosophy
In addition to the further development of classical texts of the older Western intellectual history, this programme area concentrates above all on the current academic examination of important authors and figures of thought of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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