We are very sad that this week we will be saying goodbye to our current ICI Fellows.

The ICI Berlin is in summer recess from 16 July on. We will resume our public activities after the beginning of the new academic year on 10 September.

As the ‘Western world’ drifts towards the periphery of a ‘Westernized world’, a ‘return of religion’ reveals in 20th century philosophy a hidden continuation of religious orientations. This ‘religion of philosophy’ is the subject of the texts collected in the present volume.

Volumes 12 and 13 in the series ‘Cultural Inquiry’ have just been released: Conatus und Lebensnot: Schlüsselbegriffe der Medienanthropologie, ed. by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky & Anna Tuschling, and Aura und Experiment: Naturwissenschaft und Technik bei Walter Benjamin, ed. by Kyung-Ho Cha.