Why do teenagers find SchülerVZ, flickr or YouTube so fantastic? What are they finding in the communities on the internet that doesn't exist in real life, and what exactly are they doing with it? The JFF- Institut für Medienpädagogik (Institute for Media Education) looks into these questions and learns from a 15 year-old "I think the future will just be one big Second Life."...
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On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Hannah Arendt's death, Daniel Cohn-Bendit recalls his relationship with the great philosopher and reflects on her and on his generation.
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Joachim Radkau has written a monumental biography of Max Weber, the father of sociology. Relying heavily on private letters, he draws close parallels between Weber's intellectual and erotic life - which was at first unfulfilled and then both uninhibitied and extra-marital. All very interesting, but does it help us understand Weber's work? By Robert Leicht
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The time of the master thinkers is over. Or so they say. Italian
philosopher Giorgio Agamben is a beacon for an entire generation of
young intellectuals across Europe. Every epoch
gets the fashion philosophy it deserves. By Daniel Binswanger
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"Humankind will prevail because, in spite of the accidents of history,
the novel tells us that art restores the life in us that was
disregarded by the haste of history." Carlos Fuentes'
opening speech at the Fifth International Literature Festival Berlin pays tribute to Don Quixote and literature as a whole.
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Germany's national poet and dramatist, Friedrich Schiller, died 200 years ago today. Since then he has been adulated by generations of Germans. Both the Nazis and the East German communist regime celebrated him as one of their own. But what relevance does Schiller have today? By George Steiner
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Indian religion, philosophy and the peaceful revolution of Mahatma
Gandhi have defined India's image abroad. The West has
trouble making sense of the violence that is manifested in religious and
political conflicts and everyday crime in India. But are philosophy and
reality really at odds with one another? By Bernard Imhasly
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The public face of Islam is changing. A new collection of essays tries to understand how and why. By Moritz Behrendt
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What can we learn from Albert Einstein today? Trust in the free flight of conceptual imagination, mistrust of any kind of authority and knowing when you can safely go to bed. By Yehuda Elkana
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