Towards a New Culture: From Refusal to Re-Creation. Outline of an Ecological and Humane Alternative
By Dieter Duhm
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How will life go on after the collapse of the globalised political and economic systems? How will it survive the large-scale disruption of our planet’s ecological and climatic systems? And what will become of the immense systems of belief, love and thinking as they start to shake within?
The answer to these questions has to persist in the face of so many failed attempts in the past. The world stands on the brink of an abyss. The youth from Cairo to London, from Greece to Chile, from Rothschild Avenue, Tel Aviv to Wall Street, New York are looking for new ways out of the crisis. If the mass protest and revolt movements rising up all over the world today intend to take off together, if life is to win over violence and war, we need a direction, an image, an idea of what might be our common goal.
This book offers an idea of how a future worth living could be. It was written and published more than thirty years ago in Germany and we believe that its time has now come. It is the first time to be published in English. We left it in the political context in which it was written. Through this we want to show that names change, yet the underlying problems remain the same – until we discover how to solve them. How this can be achieved is what this book is all about. It is more relevant today than ever.
Dieter Duhm
Dieter Duhm was born in 1942 in Berlin, Germany. He has a PhD in sociology, is an art historian, author and psychoanalyst. He is the initiator of the “Healing Biotopes Plan” – a global peace plan.Beginning in 1967 he engaged in the Marxist left and became one of the leading characters in the students’ movement. He made a connection between the thoughts behind the political revolution and the thoughts related to the liberation of the individual and became known through his book “Angst im Kapitalismus” [Fear in Capitalism] (1972). Around 1975 he began publically distancing himself from the leftist dogmatism and shifted to a more thorough human alternative.In 1978 he established the “Bauhütte” project and led a three-year social experiment with 40 participants in the Black Forest in Germany. The theme of the experiment was to “found a community in our times” and it embraced all the questions of the origin, meaning and aim of human existence on planet Earth. The outlines of a new possibility for existence arose with the concepts of ‘free love,’ ‘spiritual ecology’ and ‘resonance technology.’In 1995 he founded the peace research center Tamera in Portugal together with the theologian Sabine Lichtenfels and others. Today Tamera has approximately 200 co-workers.Dieter Duhm has dedicated his life to create an effective forum for a global peace initiative that can be a match for the destructive forces of the capitalistic globalization.Books:in German:Angst im Kapitalismus (Fear in Capitalism) (1972)Der Mensch ist anders (The Human Being is Different) (1974)Synthese der Wissenschaften (Synthesis of Science) (1979)Aufbruch zur neuen Kultur (1982)Der unerlöste Eros (1991)Politische Texte für eine gewaltfreie Erde (Political Texts for a Non-Violent Earth) (1992)Die Heilege Matrix (2005)Zukunft ohne Krieg (2006)Terra Nova (2014)Translated into English:The Sacred Matrix (2005)Future without War (2007)Eros Unredeemed. The World Power of Sexuality (2010)Towards a New Culture (2012)Terra Nova (2015)Books in English with his contributions:Madjana Geusen, Ed.: Man's Holy Grail is Woman (2006)Martin Winiecki, Ed: Setting Foundations for a new Civilization (2013)
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