In today's society, we seem to meet less and less. Social cohesion, social capital and the feeling of living a meaningful life are under pressure, partly because of the increasing intervention of technology, market and state. Experts speak of a sentence crisis and a loneliness pandemic.
In Feel like Society: New places of meaning, resistance and perspective Authors Ward Huetink, Lia Hol and Ellen Klaver are looking for new places of meeting and meaning. They advocate a broader view of meaning and show how various initiatives from cooperatives and action movements to modern monasteries and ecological farms offer an environment where sentence results: the sense of connection to a greater whole and the sense to contribute to it.
Together with thinkers like Stefan Paas, Hans Alma and Laurens ten Cate, they investigate the questions: How do these initiatives relate to associations that traditionally formed the backbone of our society? What can traditional social links, such as philosophical organisations, learn from these new initiatives? And what could they contribute to this?
The book is an up-to-date exploration of urgent questions surrounding living together, in which the authors bridge the age-old search for a meaningful life and contemporary initiatives.
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