Enhancing Ecological Awareness as Distance Awareness
Rico Sneller · Advances in environmental engineering and green technologies book series · 2024
This chapter focuses on the viability of distance awareness as an indispensable ingredient of form awareness and, subsequently, environmental education. It studies relevant motifs in the work of two post-Romantic German thinkers, Ludwig Klages (1872-1956) and Hermann Friedmann (1873-1957). The main argument comprises two areas of concern: 1) enhancing crisis awareness and reintegration, and 2) promoting poetry education. As a common thread running through these areas, consciousness as distance awareness imposes itself. Distance should not be taken as a quantity but rather as an original quality that justifies itself.