Cultural Philosophy
The subjet "History of Thought of Central and Eastern Europe" is taught in Fribourg.
The following topics are emphasised during the courses: a) Russian philosophy of the 19th-20th century and b) the processes of the transfer of knowledge and science between Eastern, Central and Western Europe. A special focus lies on the ties between the sociocultural and historical contexts and the philosophical and theoretical questions.
According to the peculiarities of intellectual practice in Eastern and Central Europe, courses and seminars are knowingly designed multidisciplinarily and comparatively and refer to different subjects, such as literature, philosophy, linguistics etc.
This combination of courses is unique in Switzerland. The courses and seminars are taught alternately in German and French.