Editorial Karl P. Ameriks (Notre Dame University, West Bend, USA), Margaret Atherton (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA), Frederick Beiser (Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA), Fabien Capeilleres (Universite de Caen, France), Faustino Fabbianelli (Universita di Parma, Italia), Daniel Garber (Princeton University, Princeton, USA), Rudolf A. Makkreel (Emory University, Atlanta, USA), Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA), Alan Nelson (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA), Christof Rapp (LMU Munchen, D), Ursula Renz (Universitat Klagenfurt, Osterreich), Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann (FU Berlin, D), Denis Thouard (HU Berlin, D), Paul Ziche (Universiteit Utrecht, NL), Gunter Zoller (LMU Munchen, D) The series publishes monographs and essay collections devoted to the history of philosophy as well as studies in the theory of writing the history of philosophy. A special emphasis is placed on the contextualization of philosophical historiography into the areas of the history of science, culture, and the wider scope of intellectual history. Hartung works out both the linguistic and philosophy of language setting as well as socio-political and cultural implications of the radical critique of language developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by philosophers as diverse as Steinthal, Cohen, Simmel or Cassirer. He argues that the theories pleaded for a plurality of linguistic and cultural forms as well as for a new logic beyond the traditional nature culture partition.