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Our culture has no concept of stopping. We continue to build
motorways and airports for a future in which cars and planes may no
longer exist. We’re converting our planet from a natural one to
an artificial one in which the quantity of man-made objects –
houses, asphalt, cars, plastic, computers and so on – now exceeds
the totality of living matter. And while biomass continues to
decline due to deforestation and species extinction, the mass of
man-made objects is growing faster than ever. We’re on a
treadmill to disaster. To get off this treadmill, argues Harald
Welzer, we need to learn how to stop: as individuals and as
societies, we need to stop doing what we’re doing and say
‘enough’. We find it hard to do this because our culture has
trained us to regard endless escalation as desirable, and we’re
reluctant to surrender the material benefits of growth. But as long
as the expansive cultural model continues to prevail, there will be
no change of course in favour of sustainable and climate-friendly
practices and lifestyles. We need a cultural model in which the
beauty of stopping is given the recognition needed for the project
of civilization to continue. Optimizing processes that are heading
in the wrong direction only makes matters worse. Stopping is
imperative: it is a human cultural technique that we must re-learn.
Only then can we achieve a new beginning.
Autobiographical memory constitutes an essential part of our
personality, giving us the ability to distinguish ourselves as an
individual with a past, present and future. This book reveals how
the development of a conscious self, an integrated personality and
an autobiographical memory are all intertwined, highlighting the
parallel development of the brain, memory and personality.
Focusing strongly on developmental aspects of memory and
integrating evolutionary and anthropological perspectives, areas of
discussion include:
- why non-human animals lack autobiographical memory
- development of the speech areas in the brain
- prenatal and transnatal development of memory
- autobiographical memory in young children.
This book offers a unique approach through combining both
neuroscientfic and social scientific viewpoints, and as such will
be of great interest to all those wanting to broaden their
knowledge of the development and acquisition of memory and the
conscious self.
Autobiographical memory constitutes an essential part of our
personality, giving us the ability to distinguish ourselves as an
individual with a past, present and future. This book reveals how
the development of a conscious self, an integrated personality and
an autobiographical memory are all intertwined, highlighting the
parallel development of the brain, memory and personality. Focusing
strongly on developmental aspects of memory and integrating
evolutionary and anthropological perspectives, areas of discussion
include: why non-human animals lack autobiographical memory
development of the speech areas in the brain prenatal and
transnatal development of memory autobiographical memory in young
children. This book offers a unique approach through combining both
neuroscientfic and social scientific viewpoints, and as such will
be of great interest to all those wanting to broaden their
knowledge of the development and acquisition of memory and the
conscious self.
The authors discovered 150,000 pages of transcriptions of secretly
recorded conversations among German prisoners of war, of which
approximately one third were made in P.O.W. camps in Britain,
another cache was made by bugging prisoners in the Mediterranean
theatre of the war (North Africa, Malta, Italy) and the remainder
comes from the bugging of prisoners of war in the USA. These
transcriptions are thus unmediated, uncensored, and
unselfconsciously candid and that is what gives this book its
historical significance and extraordinary impact. What emerges from
these transcriptions and within these pages is a shocking and
profoundly illuminating portrait of the typical German soldier of
the time: their thoughts, their feelings and their ideologies.
SOLDATEN is a book that explodes many of the myths that we hold on
to about Germany and its people during the War.
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