WELCOME FROM THE FOUNDER

Studying philosophy and traveling have been my passions for a long time. After I finished my doctoral studies at the New School for Social Research, I brought these two passions together and over the years created a venue through which participants in a travel philosophy class can study and explore the life and the works of a philosopher or a school of philosophy in situ. While studying the works of philosophers, we often forget the context in and through which they were created. This context has to do with the places where they lived, the historical conditions of their times, and the people of these times, and I believe it is important to study them as much as it is to study their biographies from books. After consulting with several philosophy teachers who were all encouraging, I embarked on this project with a first Philomobile trip to the Nietzsche sites in May 2010 (more information about this trip is in the newsletter). Please join us in these adventures. Yunus Tuncel, Ph.D.