Journeys
Guided walks through the map, told stop by stop.
- From Mythos to Logos
How the search for the primal substance became philosophy – and why the story of a clean break, told by Wilhelm Nestle in 1940 as the way “from mythos to logos”, is too simple.
8 stops
- The Journey of Aristotle
How Aristotle was read, rethought and argued over in Baghdad, Córdoba and Paris.
9 stops
- Doubt and the Self
From ancient skepticism to the modern subject – and its critics.
10 stops
- Hegel’s Heirs
One system, two camps – the line to the Frankfurt School, and a return from Ljubljana.
10 stops
- The Linguistic Turn
When philosophy discovered that its problems lie in language.
10 stops
- Asia and Europe in Dialogue
Europe reading Asian texts, Asia working with European ones – and where the two met.
11 stops
- What Is Just?
Two and a half millennia of argument over the good order.
10 stops
- The Riddle of Consciousness
From the cogito to the “hard problem”.
10 stops
- Who Decides What Counts as Knowledge?
How do we know – and who decides what counts as knowledge? Arguments from India to the Andes.
9 stops
- From Gargi to Oluwole
Three thousand years, four continents: on the ground of the world, mind and body, logic and the sources of knowledge.
10 stops
- From Baghdad to Isfahan
Arabic and Islamic philosophy: how Greek reason met revelation, and what came of the encounter.
9 stops
- The Chinese Conversation
Two and a half thousand years of argument about human nature, the Way and the good order.
9 stops
- Paths of Indian Thought
Self, suffering, logic and liberation: the schools of India in dispute with one another.
9 stops
- African Philosophy
From the vizier’s maxims to the critique of ethnophilosophy – the habit of presenting a whole people’s worldview as its philosophy: who speaks for African thought?
10 stops
- Latin America and the Indigenous Americas
From the Valladolid debate and Nahua song to the decolonial turn: six centuries of thinking in and about the Americas.
13 stops
- Thinking Freedom
Thinkers who turned their own experience into philosophies of freedom – and changed what counts as rights, knowledge and education.
9 stops
- Feminist Philosophy
An argument over six centuries: what is a woman, and what follows for justice?
11 stops
- How Sociology Emerged from Philosophy
How questions of moral philosophy, natural law, the philosophy of history and political economy became a science of society – from Ibn Khaldun to Durkheim, who in 1895 declared it independent of philosophy.
12 stops
- Philosophy under National Socialism
How philosophers in Germany and occupied Europe took part in, adapted to, fled from or were murdered under National Socialism – with fascist Italy as a comparison and the first attempts in exile to understand what had happened.
10 stops
- Thinking after Auschwitz
How philosophers after 1945 asked what the murder of the European Jews means for guilt, culture, ethics, the concept of God, testimony and the understanding of modernity – from Jaspers’s lectures on guilt to Agamben’s Remnants of Auschwitz.
10 stops
- How Society Became Thinkable
From Ibn Khaldun to Raewyn Connell’s critique of a sociology written in the global North: how society became an object of science – and who got to describe it.
12 stops