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What if human life has no secure foundation—no ultimate law, no necessity, no rational guarantee? For Lev Shestov (1866–1938), the most unsettling of Russian existential thinkers, philosophy’s dream of certainty was an illusion born of fear. Against the entire Western tradition from Plato to Kant and Hegel, he proclaimed that existence is groundless: fragile, paradoxical, exposed to the abyss of uncertainty. This book presents Shestov’s thought as a radical alternative to systems of reason and necessity.

Modern cities are the most complex and fragile structures ever built. A single power failure can cascade into chaos. A single pandemic can turn density into a death sentence. A single metre of sea-level rise can displace hundreds of millions. But for the first time in ten thousand years, there is an alternative. THE LAST CITY describes a civilisation in which every home generates its own energy, harvests its own water, grows a portion of its own food, recycles its own waste, monitors its own health, and connects to the world by satellite.

The Flowing Self: Identity in Drift and the Dynamics of Being offers a radical rethinking of what it means to be a self in a world shaped by continuous change, relational complexity, and the dissolution of fixed categories. Rejecting essentialist models of identity and therapeutic narratives of self-discovery, the book presents a structural account of selfhood as a lawful process—not something possessed, but something inferred, constructed, and maintained through dynamic coherence over time.

This book offers a rigorous and deliberately restrained examination of one of the most ambitious ideas in contemporary theoretical physics: the holographic principle. Rather than celebrating or rejecting holography, it subjects its claims to disciplined evaluation, asking not whether the mathematics works, but what, if anything, it entitles us to say about reality itself. The analysis proceeds from a simple but often neglected distinction between three levels of theoretical success: mathematical consistency, explanatory power, and ontological entitlement.

Erasmus of Rotterdam is usually remembered as a gentle humanist, a champion of learning, moderation, and civilized reform. This book proposes a more unsettling and far more compelling portrait. A Spy of Rotterdam: Erasmus Between Wisdom and Folly presents Erasmus not as a harmless moralist or a failed revolutionary, but as a uniquely positioned observer who survived one of Europe’s most violent intellectual ruptures by mastering the art of influence without allegiance.

This book offers a comprehensive philosophical exploration of happiness grounded in the ancient clarity of Epicurus and expanded by the insights of Stoicism, Christian spirituality, and modern psychology. Rather than treating Epicureanism as a historical curiosity, it presents it as a living framework capable of addressing the anxieties of contemporary life—fear, restlessness, overstimulation, and the quiet erosion of meaning.

Human history has long been told as the story of exceptional beings—heroes, prophets, conquerors, and visionaries—whose will and charisma supposedly move civilizations. Behind this belief lies a continuity stretching from ancient myth and theology to modern politics, economics, and digital culture. Yet the elevation of singular figures has made history itself a form of captivity: collective progress and moral growth remain hostage to the egos of those who claim to embody destiny. Even in an age that calls itself democratic, old hierarchies persist under new disguises.

This book examines the transformation of human intimacy as it evolves alongside shifts in culture, the human body, and technology. It follows the path of desire from the age of silence and repression to the modern world of artificial intelligence and virtual relationships—a journey that moves from secrecy to openness, from shame to understanding, from wild, consuming passion to calm, conscious connection.

What rules will guide us when the sky is no longer the limit? As humanity prepares to settle the Moon, mine asteroids, and build cities on Mars, the question of how we govern ourselves beyond Earth has never been more urgent. Law in the Stars explores the fragile, fascinating evolution of space law—from Cold War treaties to private mining ambitions, from orbital debris to philosophical questions of ownership, justice, and meaning in the cosmos.

Platonic Ideal Forms reintroduces one of the oldest metaphysical ideas to the world of contemporary thought. Rather than treating Plato as a figure sealed in antiquity, this book places him in direct conversation with the sciences, paradoxes, and abstractions of the twenty-first century. The theory of ideal forms becomes a lens through which complexity, uncertainty, beauty, truth, and order can be re-examined with renewed clarity.

Every act of knowing carries within it a quiet act of forgetting. Knowledge as Oblivion reveals the hidden symmetry between learning and loss, understanding and erasure, showing that progress in thought is not an accumulation but a perpetual renewal through disappearance. In this bold and luminous work, Boris Kriger dismantles the myth of intellectual continuity and invites the listener to reconsider what it means to “know.”

In a world flooded with simplified “guides to Daoism,” this book dares to think. Flowing with the Dao is not another interpretation of Laozi’s verses—it is a living conversation between East and West, between the silent wisdom of the Dao and the analytical rigor of Western philosophy. Here the listener discovers how the Dao can illuminate existentialism, soften Stoicism, balance science with wonder, and transform ethical thought without resorting to mysticism. Each chapter unfolds as a bridge: between intuition and intellect, serenity and action, mystery and method.

What does it mean to live in harmony with others? Is it possible to balance self-interest with compassion, individuality with community, freedom with responsibility? This book takes you on a journey through philosophy, science, history, and everyday life to explore one of humanity’s oldest questions: how can we live together without destroying each other?

What if reality is not a branching forest of infinite timelines, but a single, irreplaceable world whose value becomes clearer the moment we strip away seductive myths? This book confronts one of the most persistent modern fantasies—the idea of parallel universes—by examining it through science, philosophy, and the psychology of human perception. It exposes how easily speculative models slip into pseudoscience, how cultural repetition creates the illusion of credibility, and how misused scientific language blurs the boundary between rigorous inquiry and imaginative fiction.

What happens when the inner voice falls silent? In a world that celebrates confidence without reflection and power without pause, The Shameless I peers into the darkened mirror of the modern self. This is not a book about morality—it is a descent into its absence. Through a slow, unflinching anatomy of conscience, the text exposes how guilt has been pathologized, how betrayal is normalized, and how the soul is anesthetized in the name of freedom. What emerges is a portrait of a time where shame is weakness, remorse is obsolete, and success is measured by the ability to feel nothing.

Nuclear energy stands at the crossroads of fear and necessity, science and public imagination, catastrophe and promise. This book offers a clear, penetrating examination of one of humanity’s most consequential technologies—its origins in cosmic processes, its role in the modern energy landscape, the accidents that shaped its reputation, and the profound ethical questions that surround its use. Rather than taking sides, it illuminates the hidden mechanisms, political pressures, psychological forces, and historical legacies that form the real structure of the nuclear debate.

Als Denker von tiefgreifender Originalität und berüchtigter Schwierigkeit bleibt Martin Heidegger eine der umstrittensten Figuren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sein monumentales Werk „Sein und Zeit“ definierte die zentrale Frage der Philosophie – was es bedeutet, „zu sein“ – neu, während seine späteren Schriften sich mit Technologie, Sprache, Kunst und Sterblichkeit befassten. Doch seine dunklen politischen Verstrickungen sorgen weiterhin für Unbehagen und verlangen von den Lesern, sich nicht nur mit der Brillanz seines Denkens, sondern auch mit den Schattenseiten seiner Biografie auseinanderzusetzen.

In Philosophy of Quantum Physics: Making Sense of What Doesn’t Make Sense, Boris Kriger invites the listener on a journey across the frontiers of knowledge — where physics meets metaphysics, and reality itself begins to question its own coherence. From the birth of matter to the architecture of uncertainty, from entanglement to the nature of consciousness, this book explores how our deepest theories of the universe reshape the idea of what it means to be.

The world has witnessed almost everything: cannibalism born of famine, slavery normalized by law, genocide industrialized and justified, the Holocaust carried out in the name of order and purity. We comforted ourselves with the belief that these horrors belonged to the past, that humanity had learned its final lessons. Yet there was one thing history had not fully rehearsed: the systematic persecution of migrants as a global norm. This book argues that we are now living through precisely that moment.

This book explores the Hierarchy of Rationalities—a structure that moves from instinctive choices to systemic thinking, and finally to existential questions of meaning and ethics. It reveals how rationalities often collide, and how navigating these conflicts requires not certainty, but humility, creativity, and courage.