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 Our Liste Widerstand had the idea of making some funny soccer shirts – especially as now is the soccer world cup. So Rene made great caricatures of Kant and Wittgenstein, so that we have two fabulous shirts. Check them out here.
A few days ago Kai sent me the link to a veeeeery funny video made [...]

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 Yesterday evening I gave a speech entitled “Proper Names: a Problem in the Philosophy of Language” for Gerusija in the student culture center “Bunker”.
I gave a short overview in excerpts of the question “How does language hook up to the world” with the stations:

sharing a form: Aristotle and Wittgenstein
Dialectical inspired conceptions of the relationship “signifier [...]

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On the T.S. Eliot email list Dunja and me were getting more and more bothered by the extensive consideration of “the author’s life” when interpreting poetry, e.g. psychologizing the author in order to decrypt the symbolism offered in a piece of art. We wrote the following critical mail together:
You wrote: “why not consider something as [...]

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My sister made a literature section on her wiki. At the moment you can find there a section on Hermann Hesse and on Moliere. I’m sure Dostojevski will soon follow, knowing her list of heroes a bit She also has a nice section of excerpts, where you can find wonderful pieces like [...]

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 Sabrina is working on a series of mindmaps on Schopenhauer. You can check them out here.

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My sister Sabrina and I went to Thomas Mohrs‘ speech “Zur Freiheit verdammt – Unbequeme Thesen des Existenzialismus” last week. Sabrina made some nice mind-map on that topic. Check it out at her wiki.
One of the most interesting topics in Sartre is for me, how he tries first to develop something like a conditio [...]

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