He who is looking for India may well end up discovering America. Just like Columbus, seemingly useless or wrong ideas are often at the outset of great discoveries. Useless ideas have an effect on life, on science, on arts and politics and on everyday life. On the basis of examples taken from Plato to Einstein and Marx and Hannah Arendt, Frieder Lauxmann demonstrates how it was action not aimed at a specific result, which has moved the world. His quest for the freedom of thinking is at the same time an interesting voyage trough the world of philosophy.
- A quest for freedomly thinking as well as an interesting journey through philosophy
Dr. Frieder Lauxmann was born in Stuttgart in 1933, studied law in Tuebingen and Munich. He worked in the civil service from 1962 to 1995 and lives now in Karlsruhe. His book "The Philosophical Garden" was published in 1994 and has become a long-seller; "With Hegel on the Data Highway" (1996) was translated into Chinese among other languages; "The Philosophical ABC" (1997) was translated into Korean among other languages. The last book published was "The Creation" (2004).
