Lene Rachel Andersen
Danish author, economist, futurist, and philosopher. Full member of the Club of Rome. President of the Copenhagen based think tank Nordic Bildung and co-founder of the Global Bildung Network.
She has written 20 books and received two Danish democracy awards: Ebbe Kløvedal-Reich Democracy Baton (2007) and Døssing Prisen, the Danish librarians’ democracy prize (2012).
Her books in English are The Nordic Secret (2017), edited by Tomas Björkman, Metamodernity (2019), Bildung (2020), What is Bildung? (2021), and Libertism (2022).
In 2018, Andersen co-founded the Copenhagen based think-tank Nordic Bildung and the folk-Bildung association Fremvirke. In 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 she was the main initiator of European Bildung Day and in 2020 co-founded the European Bildung Network.
She is a Futurist at Next Scandinavia, associate at Initiative for Science, Society and Policy (ISSP) and Research Associate at University of Southern Denmark.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lene_Rachel_Andersen
https://www.clubofrome.org/member/andersen-lene-rachel/
https://youtu.be/W1Gk5kAsACc?feature=shared Lene Rachel Andersen: The Significance of Bildung — Global Bildung Day
https://youtu.be/00PKt6bANTs?feature=shared Jim Rutt Show | Lene Rachel Andersen on Polymodernity
In this podcast Jim talks with Lene Rachel Andersen about the ideas in her book Polymodernity: Meaning and Hope in a Complex World. They discuss the meaning of polymodernism, working with four cultural codes, polymodernism vs metamodernism, the flaw in combining stage theories with cultural history, the problem with postmodernism’s deconstruction of guidance & boundaries, 3 factors leading to modernity, the beginnings of alienation, postmodernism as a critique of modernism, the danger of reifying theories, why a post-modern society would fall apart, learning from indigenous prehistoric cultures, the influence of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, Lene’s relationship to Christianity and conversion to Judaism, being a practicing doubting Jew, long-term consequences of having good narratives that people believe in, Jewish law vs Hammurabi’s Code, reading the Pentateuch, using post-modern tech to implement a pre-modern order, Emily Wilson’s translation of The Iliad, mining the social learnings of the past with discernment, why religious people have often led the resistance to authoritarian regimes, encouraging true courage, the bildung rose, the problem with hypermodernism, the eternal misery of hypermodernist success, learning as one of the essences of being human, and much more.
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https://youtu.be/wmjlkuR7ZB0?feature=shared What is the Nordic secret? Lene Rachel Andersen | Danish author and philosopher Lene Rachel Andersen in a conversation with Professor Michel Saloff-Coste about the development of the Nordic countries and the German concept ‘Bildung;’ a philosophy of life, education and society, deliberately implemented in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden since the 1860s.
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main photo by Nordic Bildung
