Riane Eisler – författare

Now with an updated epilogue celebrating the 30th anniversary of this groundbreaking and increasingly relevent book. "May be the most significant work published in all our lifetimes." – LA Weekly The Chalice and the Blade tells a new story of our cultural origins. It shows that warfare and the war of the sexes are neither divinely nor biologically ordained. It provides verification that a better future is possible—and is in fact firmly rooted in the haunting dramas of what happened in our past.

Nurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our personal and social options in today's world, showing how we can build societies that support our great human capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity. It brings together findings--largely overlooked--from the natural and social sciences debunking the popular idea that we are hard-wired for selfishness, war, rape, and greed. Its groundbreaking new approach reveals connections between disturbing trends like climate change denial and regressions to strongman rule. Moving past right vs. left, religious vs. secular, Eastern vs. Western, and other familiar categories that do not include our formative parent-child and gender relations, it looks at where societies fall on the partnership-domination scale. On one end is the domination system that ranks man over man, man over woman, race over race, and man over nature. On the other end is the more peaceful, egalitarian, gender-balanced, and sustainable partnership system. Nurturing Our Humanity explores how behaviors, values, and socio-economic institutions develop differently in these two environments, documents how this impacts nothing less than how our brains develop, examines cultures from this new perspective (including societies that for millennia oriented toward partnership), and proposes actions supporting the contemporary movement in this more life-sustaining and enhancing direction. It shows how through today's ever more fearful, frenzied, and greed-driven technologies of destruction and exploitation, the domination system may lead us to an evolutionary dead end. A more equitable and sustainable way of life is biologically possible and culturally attainable: we can change our course.

Nurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our personal and social options in today''s world, showing how we can build societies that support our great human capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity. It brings together findings--largely overlooked--from the natural and social sciences debunking the popular idea that we are hard-wired for selfishness, war, rape, and greed. Its groundbreaking new approach reveals connections between disturbing trends like climate change denial and regressions to strongman rule. Moving past right vs. left, religious vs. secular, Eastern vs. Western, and other familiar categories that do not include our formative parent-child and gender relations, it looks at where societies fall on the partnership-domination scale. On one end is the domination system that ranks man over man, man over woman, race over race, and man over nature. On the other end is the more peaceful, egalitarian, gender-balanced, and sustainable partnership system. Nurturing Our Humanity explores how behaviors, values, and socio-economic institutions develop differently in these two environments, documents how this impacts nothing less than how our brains develop, examines cultures from this new perspective (including societies that for millennia oriented toward partnership), and proposes actions supporting the contemporary movement in this more life-sustaining and enhancing direction. It shows how through today''s ever more fearful, frenzied, and greed-driven technologies of destruction and exploitation, the domination system may lead us to an evolutionary dead end. A more equitable and sustainable way of life is biologically possible and culturally attainable: we can change our course.

Nurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our personal and social options in today''s world, showing how we can build societies that support our great human capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity. It brings together findings--largely overlooked--from the natural and social sciences debunking the popular idea that we are hard-wired for selfishness, war, rape, and greed. Its groundbreaking new approach reveals connections between disturbing trends like climate change denial and regressions to strongman rule. Moving past right vs. left, religious vs. secular, Eastern vs. Western, and other familiar categories that do not include our formative parent-child and gender relations, it looks at where societies fall on the partnership-domination scale. On one end is the domination system that ranks man over man, man over woman, race over race, and man over nature. On the other end is the more peaceful, egalitarian, gender-balanced, and sustainable partnership system. Nurturing Our Humanity explores how behaviors, values, and socio-economic institutions develop differently in these two environments, documents how this impacts nothing less than how our brains develop, examines cultures from this new perspective (including societies that for millennia oriented toward partnership), and proposes actions supporting the contemporary movement in this more life-sustaining and enhancing direction. It shows how through today''s ever more fearful, frenzied, and greed-driven technologies of destruction and exploitation, the domination system may lead us to an evolutionary dead end. A more equitable and sustainable way of life is biologically possible and culturally attainable: we can change our course.

Based on the research that brought international recognition to Raine Eisler''s groundbreaking work The Chalice and the Blade but addressing the world as it is today, The Power of Partnership offers inspiration and guidance for moving to the better lives we yearn for.Eisler offers us a new lens, a new paradigm, for seeing the world and living in it. The Partnership Model, which emphasizes mutual respect and a fundamental awareness of the sacredness of all life, creates a solid foundation for families, businesses, communities, and the world. In contrast, the suffocating paradigm that has guided much of recorded history — what Eisler calls the Domination Model — has led individuals and groups, acting out of fear, to oppress women, wage war, terrorize, and subjugate others. Using these simple yet far-reaching models, Eisler shows how political and personal relationships based on domination inevitably result in misery and violence, while those founded on partnership foster respect, love, and an explosion of creativity.

Riane Eislers Modell einer "Caring Economy" – einer "fürsorglichen Ökonomie" – ist ebenso kühn wie wegweisend und die Übersetzung ihres Ansatzes ins Deutsche längst überfällig. Eislers Buch, das erstmals 2007 unter dem Titel "The Real Wealth of Nations" in den USA veröffentlicht wurde und in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt ist, ist das Ergebnis einer jahrzehntelangen transdisziplinären Forschungsleistung. Es nimmt seinen Ausgang von der Frage, wie es sein kann, dass Menschen – trotz ihres kreativen Potenzials und ihrer Fähigkeit zur Empathie – in der Welt so viel Schaden anrichten. Schaden an sich selbst, anderen Menschen und der Umwelt. Eislers Antwort: An der Wurzel jeder Ökonomie, die Ungleichheit, Armut und Zerstörung produziert, ist eine Gesellschaft, die Frauen und die ihnen überantwortete Care-Arbeit abwertet. Jede progressive und nachhaltige Ökonomie, sei es eine Gemeinwohl- oder eine Postwachstumsökonomie, muss deswegen zuallererst diesen Bereich der Fürsorge für andere wieder in das ökonomische Denken hereinholen – sonst kann es keine Caring Economy geben. Eisler zeigt auf, wie ein solcher Wandel gesellschaftlich umsetzbar ist, auf politischer wie auf individueller Ebene.

Riane Eislers Modell einer "Caring Economy" – einer "fürsorglichen Ökonomie" – ist ebenso kühn wie wegweisend und die Übersetzung ihres Ansatzes ins Deutsche längst überfällig. Eislers Buch, das erstmals 2007 unter dem Titel "The Real Wealth of Nations" in den USA veröffentlicht wurde und in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt ist, ist das Ergebnis einer jahrzehntelangen transdisziplinären Forschungsleistung. Es nimmt seinen Ausgang von der Frage, wie es sein kann, dass Menschen – trotz ihres kreativen Potenzials und ihrer Fähigkeit zur Empathie – in der Welt so viel Schaden anrichten. Schaden an sich selbst, anderen Menschen und der Umwelt. Eislers Antwort: An der Wurzel jeder Ökonomie, die Ungleichheit, Armut und Zerstörung produziert, ist eine Gesellschaft, die Frauen und die ihnen überantwortete Care-Arbeit abwertet. Jede progressive und nachhaltige Ökonomie, sei es eine Gemeinwohl- oder eine Postwachstumsökonomie, muss deswegen zuallererst diesen Bereich der Fürsorge für andere wieder in das ökonomische Denken hereinholen – sonst kann es keine Caring Economy geben. Eisler zeigt auf, wie ein solcher Wandel gesellschaftlich umsetzbar ist, auf politischer wie auf individueller Ebene.