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The Polycrisis Demands a Renewed Humanism

Edgar Morin and Claudio Pedretti
25 September 2025clock5 Minute Read
Federal Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius, gave a keynote speech at the 29th DVPW Congress at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 24 September 2024

Politics in the Polycrisis: Federal Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius, gave a keynote speech at the 29th DVPW Congress at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 24 September 2024. Image: dpa picture alliance / Alamy Stock

In the third decade of the twenty-first century, we are facing a confluence of escalating ecological, political, economic, technological, and existential crises, each of which is reinforcing the others. The situation requires a fundamentally different set of values, not mere technocratic fixes.

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