Vol. 1 (2016): Stabilität im Wandel

Although change should actually be present to us humans, we rave about stability and secretly assume that the world in which we now live has ceased its changeability. In any case, we react with astonishment and panic when our world changes, for example when volcanoes erupt or the climate changes. But we also view all changes in our political or cultural environment with skepticism, to say the least. Why does the idea of stability or equilibrium play such a large role in our imaginations? The volume "Stability in Change," edited by Michael Wink and Joachim Funke, sheds light on this topic. A total of eight chapters by ten authors from medicine, the humanities, cultural studies and the natural sciences discuss the subject from different perspectives.