Editor’s Note

Some texts in this Dialogue and Universalism issue have been originally published in German. However, it should be emphasized, all the papers included here are original English versions—not published in English before. We decid-ed to exceptionally depart from the criteria adopted in Dialogue and Universal-ism due to the thematic specificity of the issue. To present the main threads of Gernot Böhme’s philosophy in the most representative way—what has been the basic aim of the issue—we had to put forward some of his key papers—such ones which reveal his philosophical views consistently, in their originality, not retrospectively. This Dialogue and Universalism issue contains a separate block of papers entitled Religions and the Human World and devoted to the problems of pene-trating and shaping by religious beliefs the human world, first of all philosophy, but also cultural phenomena, general worldviews, and politics.