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One might think at first glance that this book consists of nothing more than a beautiful binding and magnificent pictures. And then one begins to wonder why an American publisher for an English-speaking audience chose to publish a picture book about the gardens of Winterthur.

Do you also have problems with demigods in white who forget in hospital that they are dealing with people, not bodies? Let us be glad that we have them. Their knowledge saves many human lives. Before the 17th century, doctors could only surmise whether and why a remedy helped in the case of illness. That this changed we owe in part to Descartes' Treatise on Man, which we present to you in this contribution.

What does dictatorship actually feel like? The socialist and humanitarian Vladimir Korolenko lets his readers understand why, as a thinking and feeling person under tsarist rule, he had no other choice but to resist. What is remarkable: he tells his story soberly and without any trace of hatred or agitation.

In Oscar Wilde's utopia, the human being is above all one thing: free. Free from constraints and free in his entirely individual expression. Reflections on how economic and artistic freedom (could) be connected...

Paul Lafargue was the son-in-law of Karl Marx and one of the leading socialists in France. Yet his polemical tract on 'The Right to Be Lazy' was permitted to appear in neither the USSR nor the GDR. Why?