Generativität, Generationen und generative, intergenerationelle Solidarität

Unzeitgemäße Überlegungen zum Leben nacheinander, auseinander und für einander in unabsehbarer Geschichtlichkeit

Burkhard Liebsch

pp. 123-160

in: Matthias Fritsch, Ferdinando G. Menga (eds), Responsibility and justice for future generations in dialogue with phenomenology, Metodo 5 (2), 2017.

Abstract

This essay starts from recent, polemical debates about relations between different generations and proceeds to a notion of human generativity that requires generative and intergenerational solidarity in a human world. In this perspective the author poses the question if a historical life for one another can emerge out of a mere sequence of lives which engenders ‘others’.