Festival to Play Up Germany's Philosophical Heritage
Germany will kick off its first philosophy festival, the "Elation of Ideas," with the aim of bringing weighty topics out of the ivory tower and into the public sphere. The country that produced such giants of western philosophy as Kant and Hegel has largely turned its back on philosophy, asserts Nida-Ruemelin, who teaches in Munich."Yet German-language philosophy is so important in the rest of the world that you find a lot of Italians especially learning German just so that they can read works by Martin Heidegger in the original," he said.
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