Waldorfske novice - Zima 2014

Š i r i m o o b z o r j a
Except that the reader leaned over the page,
Wanted to lean, wanted much most to be
The scholar to whom the book is true, to whom
The summer night is like a perfection of thought,
The house was quiet because it had to be,
The quiet was part of the meaning, part of the mind
The access of perfection to the page.
And the world was calm. The truth in a calm world,
In which there is no other meaning, itself
Is calm, itself is summer and night, itself
Is the reader leaning late and reading there.
: Wallace Stevens
In the introduction to his 'Household Words' published in the 1850's
Dickens writes: “We aspire to live in the household affections and to
be numbered among household thoughts of our readers. We hope to
be a comrade and friend of many thousands of people, of both sexes
and of all ages and conditions, on whose faces we may never look. We
seek to bring to innumerous homes from the stirring world around us
the knowledge of many social wonders.”
11 Pennac; Daniel: Comme un roman (English edition The Rights of the
Reader transl. Sarah Adams. Walker Books, London 2010
12 Eisenstein, Elizabeth: Agent of Change - print and culture studies.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980
Viri
Bruner, J.: Actual Minds, Possible Worlds. Havard Univ. Press,
Cambridge 1998.
Canetti, Elias: The Tongue Set Free, (transl. Joachim
Neugroschel orig. Die gerettete Zubge. Geschichte einer
Jugend).Granta Publications, London 1979.
Eisenstein, Elizabeth: Agent of Change - print and culture
studies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980
Galimberti, Umberto: L'ospit inquietante. Il nichilismo el giovani.
Feitrinelli Editore, Milan 2007
Jacobs, Alan: The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction.
Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011.
Pennac, Daniel: The Rights of the Reader, (transl. Sarah Adams,
orig. Comme un roman). Walker Books, London 2010.
Wolf, Maryanne: Proust and the Squid: the story and science of
the reading brain. Icon Books, Cambridge 2008.
Poesis davidbrierley.net
Solnit, Rebecca: The Faraway Nearby. Viking, London 2013.
Literature as a Mirror
of Life
prevod: Marina Nuvak
Boštjan Štrajhar
Kriza ljubezni
Najpogosteje javno uporabljena besedna zveza
je v zadnjih letih finančna kriza. Politiki,
direktorji in predsedniki uprav pa iščejo rešitve;
eni pravijo, da bi morali varčevati, za druge je rešitev
večja potrošnja, tretji iščejo razloge za situacijo v bankah,
humanisti pa v človekovi psihi. Spoznanje vseh pa potrjuje
finančno oziroma denarno krizo.
Če na trenutne razmere pogledamo z nekega drugega
vidika, kjer denar na simbolni ravni pomeni ljubezen,
lahko pravzaprav govorimo o krizi ljubezni. Nihče, ki
se ukvarja z (od)rešitvijo, za zdaj ni ponudil dolgoročne
rešitve, saj so glavni akterji kot riba v oceanu, ki
sprašuje, kje bi našla morje. Gospodarska rast in varčevanje
pač niso del take rešitve, so le poskus zdravljenja
simptomov. Pri zdravljenju pa je treba dozo zdravil
stalno povečevati, če želimo, da so učinkovita.
Rešitev je v ozdravitvi, do katere lahko pripeljejo le
ljudje z drugačnim mišljenjem in čutenjem, iz katerega
se bo razvilo drugačno delovanje. 'Nobenega problema
ne moremo rešiti na isti ravni zavesti, kjer je problem
nastal,' je dejal Albert Einstein. Dokler bo prevladovalo
'mišljenje, ki prešteva, in ne mišljenje, ki misli' (U.
Galimberti), do takrat bomo ljubezen iskali v denarju.
Prihajajoče generacije moramo zato vzgojiti tako, da
bodo dali prednost sintezi pred analizo, povezovanju
pred tekmovanjem, združevanju pred ločevanjem in
ohranitvi pred širitvijo. To pa lahko dosežemo le s celovitim
poučevanjem najmlajših, kjer ne zanemarjamo
emocionalne, socialne, interpersonalne, duhovne in
samoreflektivne inteligence. Življenja namreč ne moremo
domisliti, lahko ga kvečjemu začutimo, iz zdravega
čutenja pa se rodi etika, ki nima nobene veze s tem,
kar jaz vem, temveč s tem, kar jaz sem.
■ foto: Andres Rodriguez
Reading has not traditionally been
perceived as a creative activity.
This suggests that creative
experience is easier to trace in other forms
of artistic encounters than in reading. One of
the key reasons for this is that writing rather
than reading is readily seen as a creative
enterprise.
Thus fiction reading can be seen to play
a vital role in what might be called existential
self-formation which is a vital element
in any form of innovation. This is connected
the process of creating a unique, internal reality.
In this way reading provides the impetus
to boost creative, divergent thinking.
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