Frithjof Bergmann

Frithjof H. Bergmann ( born December 24, 1930 in Saxony) is a philosopher and founder of the New Work movement.

Life

In 1949 he won with an essay on the " world in which we want to live " a year of study in Oregon by the Austrian U.S. Embassy and remained in America. First, he made ​​his way as a dishwasher, a prizefighter, assembly line workers and dockers. Later, he wrote plays and lived for almost 2 years as a self-catering cottages in New Hampshire. He studied philosophy at Princeton University, received his doctorate with a thesis on Hegel and was teaching at Princeton, Stanford, Chicago and Berkeley.

Since 1958 he has worked at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, there was the holder of a chair of philosophy, and later of Anthropology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He retired in 1999. He is also a guest lecturer at the University of Kassel.

In the years 1976-1979 he traveled in the Eastern Bloc countries. There began with the realization that communism has no future to develop his confrontation with capitalism and the idea of ​​a counter-model, the movement of the New Work / New Work.

Services

In 1984 he established the first center for new work in the automotive town Flint, Michigan. Since then, some of these centers have been established in different countries. New Work was his life's work of Frithjof Bergmann. He is the author of publications on economic, political and cultural issues and gives advice not only governments, companies, trade unions and local authorities and young people and homeless issues in the future of work and innovativeness. Much of his work has to do with children and adolescents. His approaches he represents in the U.S. and Europe, but also in the countries of the Third World.

Publications

  • On Being Free. University of Notre Dame, 1977 ISBN 0-268-01492-2
  • New Work, New Culture. Arbor, free Office 2004 ISBN 978-3-924195-96-0
  • The freedom to live. Arbor, Freiburg 2005 ISBN 3-936855-03- X
  • New Work compact. Vision of an empowered society. Together with Stella Friedmann. Arbor, Freiburg 2007 ISBN 978-3-924195-95-3
  • Stefan Wogawa: Alternatives to the "Economic Growth madness ". Interview with a visionary - Frithjof Bergmann, pioneer of new work. Eobanus, Erfurt 2012 ISBN 978-3-9814241-4-0
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