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2. Dezember 2024 | New Publication - "Die Sonne: Eine Entdeckung" by Sibylle Anderl and Claus Leggewie

Sibylle Anderl and Claus Leggewie approach the overwhelming nature of our star as a scientific and cultural-historical fact. Anyone who wants to say something about the sun cannot remain silent about heliocentric cosmologies, solar deities, the functioning of semiconductors, solar geoengineering and nuclear fusion.

  • 2. Dezember 2024 | New Publication - "Die Sonne: Eine Entdeckung" by Sibylle Anderl and Claus Leggewie
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  • Sibylle Anderl and Claus Leggewie approach the overwhelming nature of our star as a scientific and cultural-historical fact. Anyone who wants to say something about the sun cannot remain silent about heliocentric cosmologies, solar deities, the functioning of semiconductors, solar geoengineering and nuclear fusion.
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Dec 02, 2024 from 04:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC100)

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It is the fireball in our part of the galaxy, without which there is no life on Earth. But our relationship to it has changed in recent years: while it used to be the celestial star that promised orientation and determined the day, today it is a threat to us. It ruthlessly burns down entire areas of land and melts the polar ice caps. We seek protection from its rays - and at the same time, utopian ideas surround it, the seemingly endless source of energy.

Sibylle Anderl and Claus Leggewie approach the overwhelming nature of our star as a scientific and cultural-historical fact. Anyone who wants to say something about the sun cannot remain silent about heliocentric cosmologies, solar deities, the functioning of semiconductors, solar geoengineering, and nuclear fusion.

Sibylle Anderl, born in 1981, is an astrophysicist and philosopher. She has been head of the knowledge department at ZEIT since 2024 and co-editor of the cultural magazine Kursbuch since 2021. Most recently, she published “The Great Mystery of Cosmology” (2022).

Claus Leggewie, born in 1950, is a political scientist. Between 2007 and 2017, he was the director of the Cultural Studies Institute in Essen. Since then, he has been the head of the Panel on Planetary Thinking at the University of Giessen. Most recently, he published “Reparations: in the France, Algeria, Germany Triangle” (2022).