Zeno (periodical)

Zeno is the single German-language periodical devoted specifically to work at the intersection of philosophy and literature, featuring essays, reviews, stories and poems. Since 1980, it has been published annually by Rhine-Ruhr University Press (Universitätsverlag Rhein-Ruhr | UVRR).^[1]

Name

The periodical's name refers to the ancient philosophers Zeno of Elea (c. 490 – 430 BCE), the presocratic, and Zeno of Kition (c. 333/332 – 262/261 BCE), the Stoic.

Editors

Zeno is edited by Gerd Brudermüller, Jakob Ossner, Michael Rumpf und Joachim Vahland. Until his death in 2011, Wolfgang Marx, professor of philosophy at the University of Bonn, served as co-editor.

Topic foci

Recent issues of Zeno were devoted to the following topics:

• 2017 | no. 37: Tolerance
• 2016 | no. 36: Conflicts
• 2015 | no. 35: Identity II
• 2014 | no. 34: More or Less
• 2013 | no. 33: Identity I
• 2012 | no. 32: Equality
• 2011 | no. 31: Values
• 2010 | no. 30: Individuals

Authors

Among authors who have published in Zeno are Andreas Dorschel, Wilhelm Genazino, Panagiotis Kondylis,^[2] Helmut Krausser, Brigitte Kronauer, Günter Kunert,^[3] Reiner Kunze and Gabriele Wohmann. The periodical has also re-published texts by, i.a., Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Gustav Theodor Fechner, Walter Savage Landor, Paul Léautaud, Antonio Machado, Heinrich Rickert, Marcel Schwob, Walter Serner and Georg Simmel.

External links

• Homepage of Zeno
• Zeno in titel kulturmagazin

References

1. ↑ website of UVRR for Zeno
2. ↑ Cf. Bernd Laska: Bibliography Panagiotis Kondylis
3. ↑ Cf. Nicolai Riedel, Internationale Günter-Kunert-Bibliographie 1947 − 2011 (Berlin – Boston: de Gruyter, 2012), p. 693