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It's hard to pigeonhole Thom Hartmann. He has a unique synthesis of qualities not often found in one person: a scholar's love of history, a scientist's zeal for facts, a visionary's seeking after truth, an explorer's appetite for adventure and novelty. In addition to being the nation's number one progressive radio host, he's been an ad man, a psychotherapist, a private detective, and a homeopath. His writings encompass politics, history, ecology, psychology, and spirituality, among other subjects. Even Hartmann's millions of loyal listeners and readers will be amazed at the breadth of his thought as evidenced by The Thom Hartmann Reader. Editor Tai Moses has pulled together Hartmann's writings from a dozen books and other sources to present a comprehensive picture of where Hartmann's wide-ranging intellect has led him over the past thirty years. Hartmann is perhaps best known as a political thinker, and essays throughout this book express, in his characteristic impassioned and lucid style, his fierce commitment to Jeffersonian democracy and his virulent opposition to the corporatization of America. But you'll also discover his Older and Younger Cultures hypothesis, which identifies the root cause of so many of our social and environmental ills and points the way to a solution. You'll hear from Hartmann on how to keep our schools from treating children like assembly line products, why attention deficit disorder is not an affliction, and what cloudy Germany can teach us about solar energy. You'll meet the remarkable Gottfried Müller, Hartmann's mentor and the founder of the humanitarian organization Salem International. You'll join Hartmann on fact-finding trips to Uganda, Russia, and four-thousand-year-old ruins in Peru. As fascinating as these and other topics in The Hartmann Reader are, Hartmann's deepest aspiration has always been that his audience do more than just listen or read, that they become active, awakened agents of change. These essays are meant to inspire and motivate, to spur you to take some kind of action. As Hartmann says at the end of every radio program, "Get out there, get active! Tag, you're it!"

Intro -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Nicolai Hartmanns Philosophie als permanente Herausforderung Wolfgang Harichs -- Teil I -- Einleitung und Biographie -- Einleitung -- Zur Geschichte von Leben, Werk und Wirkung -- Teil II -- Die Dialoge -- Erwägungen zu Nicolai Hartmann. Versuch einer ­marxistischen Selbstverständigung in zehn Dialogen nebst einem Anhang -- I. Über Nicolai Hartmanns Aktualität -- II. Über Materialismus und Idealismus -- III. Über den konsequenten Materialismus der neuen Ontologie -- IV. Über den inkonsequenten Materialismus der neuen Ontologie (Fortsetzung: Zur Problematik des idealen Seins) -- V. Über die Stellung der neuen Ontologie im zeitgenössischen Kampf zwischen Materialismus und Idealismus -- VI. Über die Stellung der neuen Ontologie im zeitgenössischen Kampf ­zwischen Materialismus und Idealismus (Fortsetzung: Ihr Verhältnis zu anderen ­philosophischen Richtungen, I) -- VII. Über die Stellung der neuen Ontologie im zeitgenössischen Kampf ­zwischen Materialismus und Idealismus (Fortsetzung: Ihr Verhältnis zu anderen philosophischen Richtungen, II) -- VIII. Über die Stellung der neuen Ontologie im zeitgenössischen Kampf ­zwischen Materialismus und Idealismus (Weitere Fortsetzung: Ihr Verhältnis zu anderen philosophischen Richtungen, III) -- IX. Über Georg Lukács' Weg zu Nicolai Hartmann -- X. Über die Stellung der neuen Ontologie in den Klassenkämpfen ihrer Zeit -- Teil III -- Varianten -- Zu den Bildungsfaktoren -- Zum Neukantianismus -- Zu den historischen und geistigen Voraussetzungen -- Georg Lukács und Nicolai Hartmann -- Exkurs über Lenin und Linke -- Zur Lebensgeschichte -- War Nicolai Hartmann ein Idealist? Zu einer Arbeit von Erhard Albrecht -- Teil IV -- Briefe und Dokumente -- Brief an Robert Steigerwald (10. Januar 1983)

Nicolai Hartmann was one of the most original twentieth century German philosophers. Yet, he did not compromise clarity and rigor for proficiency and originality. Brought up as a neo-Kantian, he became one of the most important critics of German idealism and one of the most resolute proponents of ontological realism. He developed what he called the "New Ontology," which lies at the core of a systematic opus branching out in all of the main areas of philosophy. He proposed innovative and promising solutions to old and new problems in the various areas of philosophy. His work had a major influence.

»Werner Hartmann. Pioneer of microelectronics in the GDR«: The physicist Werner Hartmann (born in 1912) was one of those scientists who, after their internment in the Soviet Union, occupied a prominent position in the GDR's innovation system. With his decision to live in the GDR, he exposed himself to permanent surveillance by the Ministry of State Security. Suspicions of cooperating with Western intelligence services have never been proven. An intrigue by heads of department who also worked as unofficial collaborators for the Ministry of State Security led to his humiliating dismissal in 1974. He died a broken man.

Nicolai Hartmann hat zur Erkenntnistheorie, Ontologie, Ethik, Philosophie des Geistes und Naturphilosophie geschrieben. Dieser Band geht davon aus, dass seine Arbeit auf all diesen Feldern im Zeichen der Verabschiedung der Systemphilosophie und der Begründung einer Konzeption systematischen Philosophierens steht. Im Fokus stehen dabei u.a. der Wissenschaftsbezug seines Denkens und dessen Relevanz für die Problematik der Freiheit und Geschichte.