Philosophical insights can help to broaden the mind and open up new perspectives. Indeed, as Michel Foucault said: „I would like my books to be a kind of toolbox …”. Reiner Ruffing reconsiders 50 well-known philosophical tenets put forth by the world’s greatest thinkers, from Plato to Hobbes and all the way to Adorno, and interprets them with reference to the time in which they lived. He sheds light on the ideas their authors espoused, examines their relevance today and what they can mean to each reader in a personal context.
Reiner Ruffing, PhD, born in 1955 in Homburg on the Saar, took his doctorate in Berlin under the supervision of Prof. Gerhard Göhler and Prof. Gesine Schwan. Dr Ruffing is a consultant at the Berlin Information Centre, visiting lecturer on political theory at the Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science at the Berlin Free University, and a lecturer in adult and further education. The author has written several books ron philosophy.
