About the author

Lene Rachel Andersen (born May 15, 1968), Danish author, indie publisher, economist, futurist, and philosopher. She was born and raised in Taastrup, a suburb west of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her first books were the series Baade-Og, her latest book is The Nordic Secret. In 2018, Andersen co-founded the Copenhagen based think-tank Nordic Bildung and the folk-Bildung association Fremvirke. Since January 2019, Andersen is a member of the Club of Rome.

Lene Rachel Andersen

Polymodernity

Meaning and hope in a complex world

The world is changing. Our old knowledge and general understanding of the world do not provide sufficient answers anymore. As our old understandings and the answers we get from them are insufficient, the ways we are used to react and behave do not work well anymore either.
Social norms that used to make us come across as polite and friendly are suddenly offensive to some; a good education that used to lead to a good job is outdated when you receive your diploma. Our cultural compass cannot contain and judge the world properly because the challenges we are facing were not a part of our world when we came of age and learned what the world was like.

Polymodernity provides us with a framework for understanding ourselves and our societies in a more complex way. Polymodernity is a way of strengthening local, national, continental, and global cultural heritage among all. It thus has the potential to dismantle the fear of losing one’s culture as the global economy as well as the internet and exponential technologies are disrupting our current modes of societal organization and governance.

THIS BOOK WAS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED UNDER THE NAME METAMODERNITY.

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Edition1

Printed pages138

Publish date23 Nov 2023

Published byNordic Bildung

Languageeng

ISBN print9788793791213