Actors and actresses play. They play with fire. They play with something that is very close and very intimate to...
Summer 2020, I was on a chapel tour with an architect friend. We finally reached Dornach via Cologne, the Eifel...
Growth in knowledge enables us to perceive the weaknesses of other people much more clearly than before and, depending on our temperament, to address or possibly criticize them. This touches on the problematic side of knowledge, cognition, and thinking. When we see something clearly, when we “know,” there is always...
The perception of the other takes place in the tension between self-surrender and self-assertion. When two people meet, we attempt...
If someone walked day and night for a whole year, they could walk around the Earth. This idea has been...
The other day, we were looking at photos from our vacation, and one had slipped in of grandma and grandpa back home. Meaning to say “people who stayed home,” our eleven-year-old, in a little slip of the tongue, referred to them as “people who stayed hidden,” like a secret. (In...
What can philosophy do about uncertainty? This is what two journalists of the ‹NZZ› asked Peter Sloterdijk a few years...
Do you know Beethoven’s ‹Immortal Beloved›? Beethoven dedicated all his music from a certain point in time to an ‹immortal...
According to Friedrich Glasl, the escalation in the event of conflict goes downwards, because «the path of escalation leads with a certain compelling force to regions that call for great subhuman energies, but which in the long run elude human control and domination». Glasl observes that the parties to the...
The puppet that Christopher Marcus put on stage for the production of ‹Kaspar Hauser› at the Goetheanum almost 20 years...
Two years ago, at the beginning of December, there was a spectacular solar eclipse at Tierra del Fuego in Southern...
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