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Planetary service: a way into the third millennium

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This is a translation of the German book "Dienst auf dem Planeten." Modern technology is causing space to shrink and time to become shorter. This has raised the issue of changing borders in the increasingly acute forms of having some disappear while others are strengthened to offset the effects of the shrinking world. Borders cannot simply be dismissed, if only because they protect their societies' most important cultural heritage. Changing borders is nearly always accompanied by war.
So the question is how borders can be changed without going to war or starting a civil war. What tangibly can become a "moral equivalent of war" in William James' sense? The author's answer is work service. Borders, he tells us, can be overcome by freely and openly talking together after sweating together.
This little book is important for everybody who is interested in non-nationalistic, universal work services; but it has some flaws. Rosenstock-Huessy was asked to write it in 1965 in German and for Germans. We offer this book to the American reader in translation because work service was at the core of Rosenstock-Huessy's life and work.

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113 ROS p

Publisher

Eugene : Wipf & Stock Publ.., 1978

Collation

xviii,126p.; 21 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-62032-448-6

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113

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NATURE - ESSAYS

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