Abstract
Eighty-one authors from fourteen countries and different professional backgrounds have participated in this project, Things Have to Change! On the Softening of Our World: 81 Sayings. It aims to make more visible, in both our private and professional lives, elements that we perceive as hard-set and rigid in our volatile world, and also make more tangible how such inhuman hardening may be overcome. The following lines from a poem by Bertolt Brecht served as an impulse for creative responses:
how quite soft water, by attrition
over the years will grind strong rocks away.
in other words, that hardness must lose the day.
One impressive aspect of this collective endeavour is the sheer variety of contributions. The authors all write from a perspective of personal experience, raise critical questions, and offer sensitively wrought scenarios of a more caring, more fully human world that serve to boost our courage and confidence: they suggest that yes, in many areas of life it would indeed be possible to overcome what is unhelpfully, dispiritingly hard-set!
This volume, published in German and English, aims to initiate an intercultural dialogue about our world after Covid-19. The sooner we engage, across many national borders, in interventional thinking, involve ourselves in interactive discussion, and act with all the wisdom at our disposal, the more we all stand to benefit.
how quite soft water, by attrition
over the years will grind strong rocks away.
in other words, that hardness must lose the day.
One impressive aspect of this collective endeavour is the sheer variety of contributions. The authors all write from a perspective of personal experience, raise critical questions, and offer sensitively wrought scenarios of a more caring, more fully human world that serve to boost our courage and confidence: they suggest that yes, in many areas of life it would indeed be possible to overcome what is unhelpfully, dispiritingly hard-set!
This volume, published in German and English, aims to initiate an intercultural dialogue about our world after Covid-19. The sooner we engage, across many national borders, in interventional thinking, involve ourselves in interactive discussion, and act with all the wisdom at our disposal, the more we all stand to benefit.
| Translated title of the contribution | On the Softening of Our World: 81 Sayings |
|---|---|
| Original language | German |
| Place of Publication | Berlin |
| Publisher | Schibri |
| Number of pages | 238 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-86863-227-9 |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 2021 |