We understand the expression world citizenship above all in political terms. Since its beginnings, however, philosophy has attached a wider meaning to the term. The reason for this is self-evident: The medium of philosophy consists in general human reason that transcends all political, linguistic and cultural barriers. In spite of this, the thinking of only a few great philosophers is entirely cosmopolitan. Immanuel Kant, the world citizen from Königsberg, is an outstanding exception. By Otfried Höffe...
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German painter Tomma Abts left for London twelve years ago. Her quiet, geometric paintings with Frisian names have just won her the Turner Prize. Morgan Falconer talked to her on the eve of award ceremony.
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Elke Heidenreich is smitten by the Glyndebourne Festival in England and asks herself why can't Germans do this - enjoy the exquisite pleasure of opera without feeling obliged to analyse it to death?
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In part three of our writers on the World Cup series, Andrew Anthony voices his convictions that England will do it again - and that, naturally, means a victorious showdown with the hosts.
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Are there British intellectuals? Are they better than the rest? Or do they just happen to be speaking the right language at the right time in the history of public debate? By Naomi buck
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Prospect magazine's list of the world's top 100 public intellectuals speaks tellingly about the provincialism of today's global media, but says nothing about the ideas behind today's global world. By Arno Widmann
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A small dossier on yesterday's terrorist attacks in London from the German point of view.
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Wolfram Siebeck rounds off his culinary cruise through London's eating establishments, provoked by the Guardian's somewhat Anglocentric list of the world's fifty best restaurants.
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Wolfram Siebeck is staying on in London to work his way further down the recent Guardian list of the world's "fifty best restaurants".
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The English paper The Guardian has published a list of the top fifty restaurants in the world. Astonishingly - or perhaps not - 14 of them are in England. Germany's gourmet pope, Wolfram Siebeck, who brought a shimmer of elegance to the kitchens of post-war Germany, is not in complete agreement with the Guardian's choices. Here's his slightly critical take on The Fat Duck.
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An encounter with the artist of transience Tino Sehgal who, together
with painter Thomas Scheibitz, will represent Germany at the
Venice Biennale which opens to the public on June 12. By Sebastian Frenzel
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A retrospective of the fashion designer Hussein Chalayan recently opened at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands. His clothes tell stories and reveal dreams of flying. By Mirja Rosenau
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