For the second time, I had the pleasure of taking part in the School of Philosophy's summer academy. The trip took us to the vicinity of Florence, where, under the expert guidance of the philosophers Bernd Waß and Heinz Palasser, we were able to enjoy a week-long mixture of intellectual world experience and pure joie de vivre. In dreamlike surroundings, we devoted ourselves to Baruch de Spinoza, one of the founders of modern religious criticism, and Günther Anders, whose criticism of technology has lost none of its topicality in the context of our time.