But Maija Kule believes that Latvian is able to adequately translate foreign philosophical texts and render them in a suitable form. Her husband has translated the likes of Heidegger and Husserl, among others, from German into Latvian.

"It's very important that Latvian can capture word play, such as Heidegger's extreme word play in German. And it can. It's not so pagan that it can't express complex philosophical ideas," she says.

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