The Romantic Road: On the Trail of the German Philosophers
The writer Stephen Plaice takes a journey through the German cities where the great philosophers of the 19th century lived and worked
The Romantic Road: On the Trail of the German Philosophers - Doppelgänger
Together with his brother Neville, Stephen explores Heidelberg, the city of the Student Prince, and examines its connections with the philosophers Hegel and Schopenhauer.
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The Romantic Road: On the Trail of the German Philosophers - German Atlantis
Stephen Plaice visits the city of Kaliningrad, formerly the Prussian capital Konigsberg, to explore Immanuel Kant's legacy.
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The Romantic Road: On the Trail of the German Philosophers - Human, All Too Human
Stephen visits the Nietzsche House in Naumburg, in the former East Germany, where Nietzsche spent part of his youth and where he returned at the onset of his madness.
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The Romantic Road: On the Trail of the German Philosophers - Lifting Berlin
Stephen ends his philosophical journey in Berlin, where he considers how, in maintaining our prejudices towards the Germans, we have excluded the liberal wisdom of its philosophers.
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The Romantic Road: On the Trail of the German Philosophers - The Early Romantic
Stephen revisits the town of Marburg, where he was a student in the 1970s, and reflects on the influence of German Romantic philosophy on his life.
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