Eugene Sorg
Eugen Sorg (born 1940 in Zurich ) is a Swiss journalist and book author.
Life
After completing his studies and writing a dissertation on "Social utopia and pedagogy: the relationship between social utopian systems and pedagogy, illustrated using six modern social utopias" , Sorg initially worked as a psychotherapist and was a delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross . He has worked as a journalist since 1992, including for Das Magazin , Weltwoche and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Sorg published several books and wrote reports from war zones. Until 2014 he was editor- in-chief at the Basler Zeitung .
Sorg is a regular guest author at the Axis of the Good .
reception
Henryk M. Broder wrote about Sorg's book Die Lust am Bad: Why violence cannot be cured , in which Sorg declared that massacres do not occur for ideological reasons or for revenge, but out of greed and the pure joy of killing:
- “With such theses, Sorg brings the debate about human nature back to the ground of reality, after it has been conducted for far too long in the dollhouse of social sciences. He does not differentiate between leaders and those who have been seduced, as theologians, sociologists and psychologists do; he diagnoses "the pleasure in fighting itself, the joy in destruction, in the devastating vengeance, in the successful raid" [..] Because: "Behind the Evil has no pathology, no despair, no revenge for injustice suffered. There is nothing behind him but the decision to do evil. "
Svenja Flaßpöhler commented that Sorg's thesis is obvious at first glance, but problematic at the second. He disregards the “logic of transgression of evil” and that evil is not just natural, but precisely an effect of moral demarcation. The prohibition and its transgression are enjoyed, so the culture, which exempts Sorg from any guilt, is ultimately the origin of evil. Furthermore, Sorg did not work out the diversity of the crimes he cited and the “different types of pleasure”.
Awards
- German Reporter Award 2011: for the lust for evil (best essay)
Books
- Favorite Stories , Opinio, 2001, ISBN 978-3-855041-305 .
- Invincible: Reports (with Leon de Winter ), Nagel & Kimche, 2007, ISBN 978-3-312004-00-3 .
- My life as a 68er (with Res Strehle ), real time, 2008, ISBN 978-3-905800-18-0 .
- The lust for evil: Why violence cannot be cured , Nagel & Kimche, 2011, ISBN 978-3-312004-74-4 .
- How I prevented Ghadhafi's bomb (with Urs Tinner ), Nagel & Kimche, 2012, ISBN 978-3-312005-25-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Eugen Sorg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Articles by Eugen Sorg in the Basler Zeitung .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Proof of the dissertation at the German National Library .
- ↑ Handbook of Jihadism: No unbeliever should feel safe anymore , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 20, 2015.
- ^ Profile of Eugen Sorg at Perlentaucher .
- ^ Profile and photo of Eugen Sorg at Hanser Literaturverlage .
- ^ Contributions by Eugen Sorg on the axis of the good .
- ↑ Henryk M. Broder: The Decision to Do Evil , Weltwoche, March 12, 2017.
- ↑ Svenja Fläßpöhler: Torment , torture, kill , Deutschlandradio, February 17, 2011.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Worry, Eugene |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss journalist and book author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |