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Joe Keohane

    The Power of Strangers
    The power of strangers : the benefits of connecting in a suspicious world
    Strangers
    Annelee Murray
    • Als der amerikanische Journalist Joe Keohane eines Nachts mit einem Taxifahrer ins Gespräch kam, überraschte es ihn selbst, als wie bereichernd er diese Begegnung empfand. Er fing an nachzudenken: Warum rede ich eigentlich so ungern mit Fremden? Und wieso geht das anderen offensichtlich auch so? Basiert diese Zurückhaltung auf Angst, auf Schüchternheit, auf unbegründeten und ungeprüften Vorurteilen? In seinem Buch »Strangers« liefert Keohane nun eine hochspannende Kulturgeschichte des Fremden, von den alten Griechen bis ins Mittelalter, von der Industrialisierung zu erstarktem Rassismus und Nationalismus heute. Welche Vorteile hätte es, wir würden anfangen, die alten Definitionen neu zu denken? Was passiert, wenn wir mit Unbekannten in Kontakt treten und Brücken bauen, statt Gräben zu vertiefen? Die gelingende Gemeinschaft ist eine der größten gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen unserer heutigen Zeit. Nach vielen Gesprächen mit Experten und zahlreichen Recherchen ist Keohane überzeugt davon, dass die Welt eine bessere sein wird, wenn wir endlich unsere Angst vor dem Unbekannten überwinden: »Miteinander zu sprechen ist nicht nur eine Frage dessen, wie wir leben wollen – sondern wie wir überleben können .«

      Strangers
    • In our cities, we barely acknowledge one another on public transport, even as rates of loneliness skyrocket. Online, we carefully curate who we interact with. In our politics, we are increasingly consumed by a fear of people we've never met. But what if strangers, long believed to be the cause of many of our problems, were actually the solution? In The Power of Strangers, Joe Keohane discovers the surprising benefits that come from talking to strangers, examining how even passing interactions can enhance empathy, happiness and cognitive development, ease loneliness and isolation, and root us in the world, deepening our sense of belonging. Warm, witty, erudite and profound, this deeply researched book will make you reconsider how you perceive and approach strangers, showing you how talking to strangers isn't just not a way to live, it's a way to survive

      The power of strangers : the benefits of connecting in a suspicious world
    • The Power of Strangers

      • 288 stránek
      • 11 hodin čtení
      3,6(8)Ohodnotit

      "In The Power of Strangers, journalist Joe Keohane takes us through an inquiry into our shared history, one that offers surprising and compelling insights into our own social and political moment. But if strangers seem to some to be the problem, history, data, and science show us that they are actually our solution. In fact, throughout human history, our address to the stranger, the foreigner, the marginalized, and the other has determined the fate and well-being of both nations and individuals. A raft of new science confirms that the more we open ourselves up to encounters with those we don't know, the healthier we are. Modern cities are vast clusters of strangers. Technology has driven many of us into silos of isolation. Through deep immersion with sociologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, philosophers, political scientists and historians, Keohane learns about how we're wired to sometimes fear, distrust, and even hate strangers; what happens to us--as individuals, groups, and as a culture--when we indulge those biases; and at the same time, he digs into a growing body of cutting-edge research on the surprising social and psychological benefits that come from talking to strangers; how even passing interactions with strangers can enhance empathy, happiness, and cognitive development, ease loneliness and isolation, and root us in the world, deepening our sense of belonging; how paradoxically, strangers can help us become more fully ourselves. Keohane explores the ways in which biology, culture, and history have defined us and our understanding of people we don't know"--Publisher's description

      The Power of Strangers