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These are the notes of the author's course ``Kommutative Algebra. II'', which were preceded by part I published in the foregoing issue of the same series (cf. review above). This set of lectures deals with the homological aspects of the theory of commutative rings and modules, the ultimate goal being the structure theory of Cohen-Macaulay rings and modules. Part I had concluded with the basic facts from the (non-homological) dimension theory of noetherian rings and modules, and in order to follow up this subject by means of the homological framework, the author starts off, in section 1 of the present volume, with developing the foundational material from homological algebra. This includes the homology and homotopy of chain complexes of modules, resolutions of modules, projective and injective modules, exact functors on the category of modules over a ring, derived functors, the crucial functors ``Ext'' and ``Tor'', tensor products of complexes, bi-complexes, and bi-functors. In section 2, this is applied to the study of the homological dimension and codimension of noetherian rings and modules. The main sub-themes here are: Koszul complexes, the depth of a module over a semi-local ring, Cohen-Macaulay modules and their support, the homological dimension of a module, the global homological dimension of a noetherian ring, and the relation between the depth and the projective dimension of a finitely generated module over a local ring (Auslander-Buchsbaum theorem). The concluding section 3 is devoted to the discussion of special Cohen-Macaulay rings such as regular rings, complete intersection rings, Gorenstein rings, and one-dimensional Gorenstein rings. Although this material is by now almost classical, the author has arranged and presented it in a very individual way. As in part I of these lecture notes, the author has striven for greatest completeness, precision, and rigor, thereby maintaining a just as high degree of lucidity and motivating challenge. Undoubtedly, these lecture notes on commutative algebra are a very useful and welcome enrichment of the existing texts in the field.