The journal publishes articles predominantly in German, but also in English and French.

Since 2014, the journal is also open to other authors and debates in classical German philosophy and offers a forum for more systematically oriented contributions, insofar as this promises a significant gain for the examination of the epoch around 1800 and in reference to current discussions.

[3] Friedhelm Nicolin and Otto Pöggeler were the editors-in-chief up to and including volume 35 (2000).

[4] Beginning with volume 36 (2001), they were succeeded by Walter Jaeschke and Ludwig Siep.

The journal is or was abstracted and indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index,[5] Current Contents/Arts & Humanities,[5] EBSCO databases,[6] International Bibliography of Periodical Literature,[6] Modern Language Association Database,[6] and Scopus (2002–2006 and 2009–2010).