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Who do you think is going to read this?" my friend asks, throwing up her hands: "It's your journals Every little detail. Every lecherous fantasy, all your perversions, obsessions. Even dreams. Who gives a fuck? You're not a famous person so who cares?

"I would have thought that my several long marriage-like relationships, twenty years in psychotherapy, careers in architecture, modern dance, fashion, filmmaking and decades of dedication to nutrition & exercise - would be foundation enough to give me a steady hand. That seems not to have happened.

I remain frightened of life, of...

Much like my father, I have been drawing all my life. As a child, I suppose, it was a way subconsciously of befriending and protecting myself. As a young adult, my drawings got me into the specialty high school of Music & Art in New York. That led me later to architectural studies at MIT and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and my career in architectural presentation in which perspectives, drawn in pen or pencil, or painted, incorporate images of people, cars, trees etc. Concurrently, I was a fashion designer which involved illustrating the collections for presentation and for advertising....

Who do you think is going to read this?" my friend asks, throwing up her hands: "It's your journals Every little detail. Every lecherous fantasy, all your perversions, obsessions. Even dreams. Who gives a fuck? You're not a famous person so who cares?

"I would have thought that my several long marriage-like relationships, twenty years in psychotherapy, careers in architecture, modern dance, fashion, filmmaking and decades of dedication to nutrition & exercise - would be foundation enough to give me a steady hand. That seems not to have happened.

I remain frightened of life, of...

Seit dem 18. Jahrhundert liegen Glauben und Wissen miteinander im Streit. Kunst und Wissenschaft kämpfen um die Vorherrschaft in den Köpfen. Es ist ein seltener Glücksfall, wenn dieser Kampf sich in zwei historischen Gestalten gleichsam verkörpert - wenn also die Philosophie von ihrem Sockel steigt und uns lebendig vor Augen tritt. Georg Büchner ragt als einer der größten der deutschen Literatur hervor, aber es bedurfte mehr als eines halben Jahrhunderts, bevor Dantons Tod, Leonce und Lena, Lenz und Woyzeck die ihnen gebührende Anerkennung...

Die zwölf Hauptthesen des Buches

1 Ein universales Gewissen lässt sich von den Jägern und Sammlern bis in unsere Zeit nachweisen.

2 Der Ursprung sozialen Friedens ist derselbe wie für den Krieg - erst die Etablierung verbindlicher Regeln macht Menschen berechenbar füreinander. Die Andersartigkeit dieser Regeln in jeder Kultur führt aber zwangsläufig zu gegenseitiger Unberechenbarkeit und zu Kriegen.

3 Die beiden Triebkräfte der Geschichte sind das universale Gewissen und der...