Von Tieren und Menschen

Title

en_US Von Tieren und Menschen

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Eugen Drewermann

Creator

en_US Drewermann, Eugen See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:54:25Z

en_US 2007-08

en_US 1998

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:54:25Z

Date Issued

en_US 1998

Abstract

en_US This book of 128 pages contains twenty-seven modern fables after the sense of fable Drewermann espouses. There is a preface and there are sixteen colored photographs. Drewermann's Vorwort gives his sense of fable. It is impossible, therefore, to want to tell fables after the fashion of Aesop, Leonardo, La Fontaine, or Lessing…. Instead of falsely humanizing animals and animalizing humans, it seems more appropriate to observe both in their specificity and differences…. When we observe animals, a good deal occurs to us that can help us to shape our lives. So there is still a fabula docet, but no longer in the sense of the raised pointing finger but rather in the sense of psychotherapeutic wisdom, no longer in the caricature of a wink of the eye, but much more in the perception of a world in which we both, men and animals, inseparably belong (8). He closes the introduction this way: Fable is dead. But: long live fable (9). His fables are thus stories of animals whom he has experienced personally and through which he, openly or otherwise, finds his beliefs announced. Some of these agree or disagree with Catholic beliefs. He thus reflects on the organization of a flock of crows and finds them not following a hierarchical leader but rather organizing themselves very effectively by following such simple rules as keeping distance from others, following the speed of those around you, and going where most of them go. I personally found the first few stories, which I read, engaging but far from fables. Almost all the Germans I talked with were amazed that Drewermann wrote fables.

Identifier

en_US 9783530400458

en_US 6409 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81734

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Walter Verlag

en_US Zurich

Subject

en_US PT2664.R39 V66 1998 See all items with this value

en_US Eugen Drewermann See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole