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interview
Capitalism Is The Main ProblemKim Stanley Robinson on climate change and science fiction
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Beyond The Limit
50 Jahre nach dem Report “Limits to Growth”: Wir wissen, dass wir unseren Planeten zerstören – warum ist es so schwer zu handeln? Wir haben Fellows, Aktivistinnen, Künstlerinnen gefragt. Begleiten Sie uns auf unserer Suche nach Antworten.
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editorial
Time for Climate ActionImagining possible futures – 50 years after “The Limits to Growth”
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interview
The Addiction to GrowthDennis Meadows on the need for a mature world
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essay
On Brown GoodsKarimah Ashadu describes the limbo within capitalism
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Nachricht
Perpetual PeaceAlevtina Kakhidze on the Art of Surviving
Beyond the War | Art |
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Presse
Grund zu HandelnVanessa Nakate wird mit dem Helmut-Schmidt-Zukunftspreis 2022 ausgezeichnet.
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interview
We Need RedistributionRaj Patel on Food Justice
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Policy Brief
Real WealthOur colleague Katharina Lima de Miranda on designing new measures of economic and social wellbeing beyond GDP. A policy brief for the G7.
Katharina Lima de Miranda | Socio-Economic Transformation | Think7 |
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Policy Brief
Data RevolutionOur fellows Dennis Snower and Paul Twomey on shifting control of personal data from data aggregators to digital consumers. A policy brief for the G7.
Dennis Snower | Paul Twomey | Socio-Economic Transformation | Think7 |
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Analyse
The Spirit of this CenturyTobias Müller on Solidarity as Co-Liberation
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Analyse
The Power of TrustIngo Venzke on the World Order
Ingo Venzke | The Foundations of Value and Values | Beyond the War |
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interview
A World of HungerRaj Patel on Food Rebellions
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interview
From Syria to UkraineAdam Harvey on Wartime Tech
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interview
The Future of ProgressMarkus Gabriel on Invisible Goods
Markus Gabriel | The Foundations of Value and Values | Beyond the War |
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Analyse
The Limits of EmpireMax Krahé on Containment.
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interview
Death by ComputationHakan Tanriverdi on Cyber Warfare.
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essay
The NightmareOxana Timofeeva on Denial.
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Analyse
Conflict as IdeologyJonathan White on the European Project.
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interview
The Problem with BlockchainOur programme director Francesca Bria talks to Evgeny Morozov about how digital technology can be democratized.
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Analyse
Holodomor and HolocaustGeorgiy Kasianov on the Politics of Memory.
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interview
The View from AboveTobias Zielony and Maria on Drones.
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Analyse
The Path to PeaceVladimir Safatle on Neutrality.
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interview
An Archive of AtrocitiesJeff Deutch on Forensic Truth.
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interview
Kyiv as a TraumaTobias Zielony and Vicky on Healing.
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interview
Kyiv as a DreamTobias Zielony and Tasia on Partying.
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interview
The Imperial ProjectJan-Werner Müller on “the West” and the War.
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Bericht
The Road to KyivJanine von Wolfersdorff on Helping People.
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interview
A Showcase of HypocrisyIngo Venzke on the Crisis of International Law.
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essay
A Recipe for DisasterMax Krahé on the Financial Origins of the War.
Beyond the War | Art |
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interview
Geld ist ein kulturelles WerkzeugVienne Chan über sozialen Zusammenhalt.
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interview
Das menschliche MaßDennis Snower über wirklichen Wohlstand.
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interview
A Century of HomelessnessEce Temelkuran on Loss and Displacement.
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essay
The Long GameRüdiger Bachmann on the Case for Harder Sanctions.
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Bericht
Was bedeutet Klimawandel für unsere Idee von Staat?Tobias Müller über Extinction Rebellion in Kenia.
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essay
The Sun Will Set Us FreeChristian Stöcker on Energy Independence.
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Nachricht
Through this HorrorA message from Alevtina Kakhidze.
Beyond the War | Art |
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essay
The Future of DiplomacyNicole Deitelhoff on the New European Order.
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essay
The New GermanyChristoph Möllers on Post-Militarism.
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essay
Being RussianAnna Katsman on Her Family.
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essay
Politics of SanctionsPhilip Manow on the Geo-Economics of Geo-Politics.
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editorial
Beyond the WarGeorg Diez on History and Memory.
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Beyond the War
Was in der Ukraine geschieht, ist eine Tragödie und ein Verbrechen – wir reflektieren den Krieg dort durch die Perspektive der Kunst und der persönlichen Erzählungen und in einem größeren Kontext durch die Expertise unserer Fellows und anderer relevanter Stimmen.
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Policy Brief
The Food of the FutureOur fellow Corine Pelluchon on why we need to rethink the way we produce and consume what we eat. A Policy Brief for the G7.
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Policy Brief
Carrots and SticksOur fellow Ingo Venzke on an international alliance for transformative and inclusive climate action. A policy brief for G7.
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Konferenz
Wohlstand innerhalb planetarer GrenzenDie Think7-Auftakt-Konferenz.
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interview
Die Politik der PflanzenTobias Müller über Forschung und Aktivismus.
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interview
Die Macht der VielenKathrin Böhm über kollaborative Wirtschaftsformen.
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Bericht
Giraffenzählen im Zeitalter der AuslöschungTobias Müller spricht mit Aktivist*innen in Malawi und Kenia.
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essay
On the BarricadesOur fellow Philip Manow explores the relationship between hyperglobalization and the heterogeneity of global protest movements.
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interview
Die Freiheit der BienenLin May Saaed über Kunst und Aktivismus.
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PAPER EDITION
On HopeHope is a promise, a contradiction, a quiet revolution.
Ece Temelkuran | Markus Gabriel | Lea Ypi | Jonathan White | Georg Diez |
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Why We Need to Discuss Web3Of all the promises made in the name of Web3, two stand out as particularly radical and democracy-enhancing.
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interview
Hope and ReasonMarkus Gabriel | The Foundations of Value and Values | Paper Edition vol.2 |
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interview
Hope and MusicIgor Levit is a pianist who connects his art with the social events happening around him.
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Hope and FaithEce Temelkuran | The Future of Democracy | Paper Edition vol.2 |
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Hope and ActivismArtist and activist Ina-Maria Shikongo talks about the fight for justice and for survival in her native Namibia.
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portrait
Raisa GalofreRaisa Galofre’s work challenges Western narratives around gender and identity, offering an alternative perspective...
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portrait
Akinbode AkinbiyiAkinbode Akinbiyi is a wanderer. On his walks through cities such as Berlin, Lagos and Johannesburg, Akinbiyi closely observes and documents social realities of the streets.
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portrait
Anjel (Boris Anje)Against the colorful and radiant backdrop of his paintings, Anjel (born Boris Anje) is celebrated for his depictions of contemporary African dandies.
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portrait
Sim Chi YinSim Chi Yin’s photographic work lays bare the monumental challenges our planet faces, and simultaneously provides personal accounts of human existence by uniting intimate storytelling with documentary photography.
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portrait
Jota MombaçaAs they describe themselves, Jota Mombaça is a “non-binary bicha” (pejorative Brazilian slang used for gay men), and a “mutant” whose personality is in constant flux.
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portrait
Kiri DalenaSocial injustice and inequality are at the heart of Kiri Dalena’s work as a visual artist, filmmaker and activist.
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interview
Gerechtigkeit für TiereCorine Pelluchon über die Neue Aufklärung.
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special
The German Election SpecialGermany has voted. Yet fundamental questions remain open.
Philip Manow | Jan-Werner Müller | Jonathan White | Lea Ypi | Christoph Möllers |
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interview
New Forms of CoexistenceBettina Steinbrügge has a real passion for the arts: “With every project I learn something new and am confronted with questions that I had not thought about before.”
Simon Denny | Art |
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Data DemocracyFrancesca Bria is the programme director of "The New Hanse" and President of the Italian National Innovation Fund. She is one of Europe’s leading digital policy experts and an innovation economist, working at the intersection of technology, geopolitics, economics, and society.
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Diskussion
The Case For Exploratory Social SciencesShould the social sciences only analyse the past and present? Or should they also try to help design the future?
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interview
Just and new futures for art workersMaría Inés Plaza Lazo knows how to connect individuals and institutions within and beyond the international art world. She is a curator, publisher, journalist and the co-founder of “Arts of the Working Class”.
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interview
Redefining the PossibleWhich dominant thought patterns deserve an update so that social and ecological goals can move to the center of economic activity?
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interview
Art as a Tool for Future ImaginationWith a background in arts and philosophy, Chus Martínez has been working both as a curator and author.
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Art in the Digital AgeIn his works, encompassing installations, sculpture, print and video, Simon Denny deals with the social and political implications of the technology industry.
Simon Denny | Art |
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interview
Simone Chambers on the Voice of the PeopleDeliberative democracy is an innovative concept to redefine and reinvigorate the reality of citizenship in the 21st century...
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interview
Community“Peek greed” – this is what Sir Paul Collier calls the present state of mind, both in business and society. But the resistance against the most obvious forms of market excess is growing.
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portrait
Taryn Simon and The Will of CapitalTaryn Simon is a conceptual artist who works at the intersection of memory, identity, representation, history and storytelling, using photography, text, sculpture and performance to create or recreate a reality that all too often eludes us.
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essay
A Kaleidoscope of Suffering and a Kaleidoscope of Hope: Ole von Uexkull on the Work and Ambition of the Right Livelihood FoundationThe coming years have global threats in stock, each one of which is more lethal than Covid-19, and they are amalgamating fast into a fatal downward spiral.
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PAPER EDITION
Covid SpecialWe are in this together: An attempt to reflect on the unexpected – the year of the pandemic.
Corine Pelluchon | Geoff Mulgan | Wilhelm Krull | Christoph Möllers | Art |
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interview
Covid and ArtI was actually in Wuhan in November of 2019 to visit a collector and came back with pneumonia. And already in December some people were talking to me about a strange virus in Wuhan.
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Covid and CapitalismI don't think Covid revealed anything we did not already know about capitalism – a system that makes certain priorities, and those priorities are based mostly on ideals of profitability and cutting costs.
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interview
Covid and ClimateIt is a relationship on quite a few different levels. The coronavirus, SARS-Cov-2, is just one of many instances in recent years of emerging infectious diseases that leap over into humanity from the animal kingdoms.
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Covid und DatenIt is important to understand that this is our second confrontation with this kind of virus. The first time was SARS in 2003, and we just panicked. The central government said different things from the municipal governments, locking down an entire hospital unannounced, all in all 73 people died.
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Corona und die DemokratieIt will be a very mixed verdict – but democracy might not be the deciding factor on how to solve the problem of the pandemic. We see democracies performing very differently. So far, we don't really have an explanation for that.
Christoph Möllers | The Future of Democracy | Paper Edition vol.1 |
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interview
Covid and EcologyWe are all vulnerable and we all have a common destiny. A lot of people have come to realize that they cannot master everything and that the connection with humans is the most important thing.
Corine Pelluchon | The Foundations of Value and Values | Paper Edition vol.1 |
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essay
Covid and GriefIt turned out to be one of the most memorable summer vacations in my lifetime — I found myself lying on a sunny, picturesque beach in the South of France; being swept away, much like with waves, by the wafting scents of Provençal seaside cuisine; and surrounding myself with three happy children building sea castles in the warm sand.
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interview
Covid and Social ImpactThis crisis has been the biggest real time simultaneous challenge to governance and policy that anyone can remember. It has had extremely uneven responses all over the world, the successes and the failures of which are complicated.
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Covid and the EastI came to Hong Kong early this year when there was suddenly this outbreak. I have been stuck here since then.
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Covid and the WestI think the pandemic will be seen as having accelerated a process that was already deeply advanced – the decline of Western ideological and intellectual hegemony. The material decline started a long time ago, but the hegemony was still intact through the years of decline.
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Covid and UncertaintyThe COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on the vulnerability of our very existence, and heavily disturbs daily routines that hitherto have been taken for granted. Unpreparedness and uncertainty prevail among experts as well as political leaders.
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diaries
Covid DiariesIt is hard to think of a period when every single person on the planet was facing the same threat, forming a collective of vulnerables...
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At the core of the idea of citizenship is the refugee: Homi Bhabha on Democracy for the 21st CenturyHomi Bhabha was the perfect person to talk to about the outcome of the U.S. election – a scholar of multiculturalism with a keen eye for...
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The US presidential election points towards a multi-ethnic democracy - and its contradictions -
Die Minderheit regiert die Mehrheit: Daniel Ziblatt über die amerikanische Demokratie
Daniel Ziblatt is sitting in his study in Newton, not far from the Harvard campus where he normally teaches as the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government. Now everything is done via Zoom.
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news
Bewerben Sie sich jetzt für das Programm “The Future of Democracy“THE NEW INSTITUTE is opening its second call for fellowships for the programme “The Future of Democracy”, bringing together academics, artists, journalists from fall 2021 on to addresses the current challenges and failures of the democratic system and aiming to find ways to strengthen participation.
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Machen wir weiter: Wilhelm Krull erörtert „Wege und Irrwege aus der geschlossenen Gesellschaft“"Well, here we are." This is the first sentence in Jean-Paul Sartre's play "No Exit", in which the four protagonists Garcin, Inès, Estelle and an enigmatic figure, the valet, find themselves in the underworld. They do not know how they ended up there.
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Die fleischliche Vernunft: Corine Pelluchon’s Philosophie des KörpersHow would our perception of ethics and politics change if we were to understand the body as the starting point of our experience? If we would put the materiality of our senses first, beating back the pretension that consciousness is at the origin of all sense?
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podcast
Martin Hägglunds radikale Diesseitigkeit: “Freiheit ist unmöglich im Kapitalismus ”What is the meaning of death? Or, as the philosopher would say: finitude? In other words, if live must end - isn’t that the ultimate limit to our existence, the very opposite of freedom?
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news
Eine sich öffnende Welt – Luisa Neubauer und Geoff Mulgan diskutieren das Potential der städtischen Transformation bei „Untitled“What will this coming decade be – the ten years, some say, that are essential if we want to change the course of things, tackle climate change before more tipping points are reached.
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International & interdisziplinär: THE NEW INSTITUTE formt hochkarätiges Berater-TeamTHE NEW INSTITUTE is expanding: Francesca Bria, President of the Italian Innovation Fund, Geoff Mulgan, the former head of the UK innovation agency Nesta, and Christoph Möllers, law professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, support THE NEW INSTITUTE.
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Werte für das 21. Jahrhundert – Die ersten Fellowships des THE NEW INSTITUTETHE NEW INSTITUTE issues its first fellowship call – focusing on “The Foundations of Value and Values”. The programme will be a central element of the fundamental research activities of the new Hamburg-based institute.
Colin Mayer | Markus Gabriel | Sonja Vogt | Corine Pelluchon | Dennis Snower |
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Werte für die Welt von morgen – Markus Gabriel wird Fellow am THE NEW INSTITUTEMarkus Gabriel, Germany’s most innovative contemporary philosopher, will become a fellow at THE NEW INSTITUTE. Beginning in the fall of 2021, Gabriel will help to shape the programme “The Foundations of Value and Values”.
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interview
Freedom and BetrayalLea Ypi has an academic mind and an activist heart. She aims for an “activist political theory”, as she states in her book on global justice.
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interview
Social ImaginationGeoff Mulgan is one of the most curious and constructive thinkers and practitioners around. He used to work in politics, he founded and ran big think tanks, he is an academic with a strong leaning towards action and change.
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essay
Colin Mayer – Care als PraxisCare, verstanden als die Sorge füreinander, ist für menschliche Gefühle und das menschliche Denken von zentraler Bedeutung.
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essay
Tom Carlson – Liebe als Sorge füreinanderWährend wir mit den Sorgen unseres geschäftigen Alltags beschäftigt sind, einem trüben Gemisch aus wirklich Dringlichem und zutiefst Trivialem...
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essay
Corine Pelluchon – Die Fähigkeit, Furcht zu empfindenWarum ist Mut eine zentrale Tugend, insbesondere im Zusammenhang mit den ökologischen, wirtschaftlichen, sozialen und politischen Herausforderungen des 21. Jahrhunderts?
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essay
Geoff Mulgan – Unsere AufgabeMut ist eine der klassischen Tugenden. Mut ist aber auch eine heikle Tugend: Mut kann leicht in Torheit oder Hybris umschlagen.
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Wilhelm Krull – Weiter sehenKreativität ist eines der wertvollsten Werkzeuge, die uns als Menschen zur Verfügung stehen.
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Rahel Jaeggi – Versprich es mirDer Begriff „commitment“ hat im Deutschen keine direkte Entsprechung: Engagement, Verbundenheit, Solidarität, so könnte man es übersetzen.