Who am I? Groundless? Soul? Freedom? Love? Upper Lusatian thinkers and poets who inspired the world.
Jacob Böhme is considered the first German philosopher and the first modern thinker of freedom. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was the most important German Enlightenment philosopher and pioneer of a global ethic. Johann Gottlieb Fichte, born in Rammenau, was the decisive inspirer of a philosophy of freedom and love. Rudolf Hermann Lotze is considered one of the world's most influential philosophers of the 19th century. Rudolf Bahro's philosophical critique of real socialism paved the intellectual way for the fall of the Berlin Wall and his ecological philosophy thinks further ahead than most of today's sustainability research. They all came from Upper Lusatia. The exhibition entitled "Who am I? Groundless? Soul? Freedom? Love?" provides an insight into their basic ideas and their impact on cultural and intellectual history.
The exhibition, which is accompanied by a book of the same name, was developed in collaboration between the Pommritz Philosophy Experience and the Culture and Management course at the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences. It will open on September 11 at 3 pm with a vernissage and will then be on display at Rammenau Castle until March 31, 2017. Further information can be found on the Rammenau Castle website.
