Trust in the ability of political elites to deal with the eco-social consequences of climate change is evaporating. Reaching eco-political targets calls for more participation of citizens as active architects of their society, write Claus Leggewie and Harald Welzer. [ more ]
"Esprit" watches market prophecies self-fulfil; "Blätter" calls off the bets in the financial casino; "Mute" refutes the received wisdom about inflation; "Dilema veche" notes how the financial crisis is reimposing the East-West divide; "New Humanist" turns to Durkheim to make sense of the depression; "Wespennest" doesn't give in to resignation; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) enters the belly of the piggy bank; "Vikerkaar" heeds cultures' anthropophagic appeal; "Dialogi" warns of a cultural wasteland in Maribor; and "Kritika & Kontext" returns a lost son to Bratislava.
is professor of political philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal and author of Shaping the Future: Nietzsche‘s New Regime of the Soul and Its Ascetic Practices.
On Nietzsche's teaching of self-overcoming
Nietzsche's writing on solitude and friendship belies the impression his philosophy preferred the ecstatic over the measured way of life. For Nietzsche, self-overcoming required both, writes Horst Hutter. [more]
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