Bøger af Joana Breidenbach

Ist Liebe mehr als ein nur persönliches Gefühl? Ist sie tatsächlich das tiefste und schönste Geheimnis der Evolution? Befähigt sie uns Menschen dazu, über innere Gewohnheiten und äußere Widerstände hinaus zu wachsen und sinnvolle Innovationen in Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft oder Kultur kreativ in die Welt zu bringen? Und auf welche Weise kann es gelingen, die paradoxen Potenziale dieser Energie Liebe bewusst in uns zu aktivieren? Ausgehend von den Thesen Teilhard de Chardins und Erich Fromms, sowie von neuen Erkenntnissen verschiedener Wissenschaften, entwickelt dieses Buch dafür neue Erklärungsansätze. Dabei stützt es sich auf Gespräche mit mehr als 20 erfolgreichen Unternehmer*innen verschiedener Branchen. "Liebe ist die universellste, erstaunlichste und mysteriöseste aller kosmischen Energien, welche sich im Menschen ihrer selbst bewusst wird." (Teilhard de Chardin) "Echte Liebe ist Ausdruck inneren Produktivseins und impliziert Fürsorge, Achtung, Verantwortung und Erkenntnis." (Erich Fromm)

Today's world is shaped by an obsession with cultural difference that penetrates everyday life and matters of state in unprecedented ways. Culture and cultural difference are commonly used to explain everything that's in the news - from wars to economic development and consumer behavior. This fuels the belief that our world is shaped by clashing cultures, a view that is counterproductive when it assumes falsely that culture is a timeless container that traps nations and ethnic groups.Seeing Culture Everywhere challenges the misguided and dangerous global obsession with cultural difference and directly critiques the popular notion that world affairs are determined by essential civilizations with immutable and conflicting cultures. The book offers an alternative view of a world in which cultural mixing, not isolation, is the norm, but where several historical trends have come together at the beginning of the twenty-first century to produce the current wave of "e;culture think."e; Brimming with concrete examples that move from genocide in Rwanda to schools in Berlin, from the Chrysler boardroom to the war in Iraq, it contemplates how ethnic identity can be mobilized in the service of all kinds of goals - violent or nonviolent, laudable or despicable - and the unintended effects such mobilization invariably produces. The authors suggest ways to remain sensitive to the cultural impacts of policies and decisions without falling into the traps of determinism, essentialism, and misrepresentation.Seeing Culture Everywhere will be useful in the fields of anthropology, law, intercultural communication, and international relations, as well as for general readers interested in ethnicity and travel.

Today's world is shaped by an obsession with cultural difference that penetrates everyday life and matters of state in unprecedented ways. Culture and cultural difference are commonly used to explain everything that's in the news - from wars to economic development and consumer behavior. This fuels the belief that our world is shaped by clashing cultures, a view that is counterproductive when it assumes falsely that culture is a timeless container that traps nations and ethnic groups.Seeing Culture Everywhere challenges the misguided and dangerous global obsession with cultural difference and directly critiques the popular notion that world affairs are determined by essential civilizations with immutable and conflicting cultures. The book offers an alternative view of a world in which cultural mixing, not isolation, is the norm, but where several historical trends have come together at the beginning of the twenty-first century to produce the current wave of "culture think." Brimming with concrete examples that move from genocide in Rwanda to schools in Berlin, from the Chrysler boardroom to the war in Iraq, it contemplates how ethnic identity can be mobilized in the service of all kinds of goals - violent or nonviolent, laudable or despicable - and the unintended effects such mobilization invariably produces. The authors suggest ways to remain sensitive to the cultural impacts of policies and decisions without falling into the traps of determinism, essentialism, and misrepresentation.Seeing Culture Everywhere will be useful in the fields of anthropology, law, intercultural communication, and international relations, as well as for general readers interested in ethnicity and travel.