“The central question of the 21st century is the ecological question, after the last 150 years or so have been characterised by the social question,” says Prof. Dr Harald Welzer. He describes times of crisis as times of learning, because our knowledge opens up room for manoeuvre. Find out more in the October 2021 lecture by this exciting thinker of our time:
We would also like to recommend Harald Welzer’s book “Nachruf auf mich selbst” (Obituary for myself), which looks at many future issues in detail. . In his opinion, the culture of quitting is severely undervalued. “Modernity thrives on the illusion of limitlessness, but we can only get through the 21st century if we understand life and business in the mode of finitude. Writing an obituary for yourself means knowing how you want to have lived – as a society and as an individual,” says the author. |