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It is not easy to find justice for one's own position when the adversary is regarded as a saint. Sofya Andreyevna Tolstaya, wife of the Russian national poet Leo Tolstoy, was among the silent losers of history for centuries. Only nearly a century after her husband's death is her position slowly receiving more understanding.

The question of what education people should receive is not new. One book takes us back to the age of humanism, when even the knightly class discovered classical learning for itself. The craft of arms alone could no longer sustain one's livelihood around 1500. And so the question arose: how does one bring Cicero to those who cannot read Latin?

A world without money, what could that look like? At the end of the 19th century, the English socialist William Morris invented such a world. His utopia doesn’t fully explain how such a society would function, but it is an invitation to dream.

In 1904/1905, Max Weber published his ground-breaking work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. He put forward the thesis that the faith of a population is causally linked to the progress of a country. Today, his theses have long been long considered outdated. But why do they still seem so plausible?

Rousseau is rarely associated with modesty. He begins his "Confessions" often treated as the first modern autobiography, with the announcement that his work is unparalleled in history and that he himself is unique. However, it would be too easy to reduce this complex and complicated personality to its thoroughly self-confident tones.