Spiritual heritage of Switzerland

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Geistiges Erbe Schweiz is a Swiss book series .

The label was created in autumn 2010 as an independent book series founded by the small company Verlag Bär in Niederuzwil . The editor, Dr. Raphael Baer, ​​is dedicated to the textual restoration of forgotten, neglected or ignored by the current zeitgeist intellectual figures and their world of thought, which originated in Switzerland, but are generally relevant for culture and human education.

Topics and content

Volume 1 and 2: The first two volumes give an overview of the complete works of Carl Hilty (1833–1909), which can be divided into basic political ideas and ethical / religious writings. The first volume shows his way from the stoic philosophy (Hilty translated Epiktet's handbook of morals) to a Christianity independent of the dogmas of the churches, which is based on personal friendship with God and active cooperation in the kingdom of God in this world.

Volume 3 contains a newly translated basic text by Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746–1827), the most famous Swiss person who no one really knows anymore , within the pedagogical topic of marriage, family, society . In addition to Pestalozzi's conclusion on "Mother, Child, Upbringing and Religion", the volume also contains three texts by Carl Hilty on the "sanctity of marriage", family education and the inadequate contribution of state-organized schools to self-education and life.

Volume 4 followed on October 16, 2011 on Saint Gallus , an immigrant from Ireland or France who had settled in Eastern Switzerland in May 612 and thus provoked the foundation of the monastery and the city of St. Gallen . Two contemporary essays by Robert Nef and Raphael Baer interpret the legend “Gallus and the Baer” in a quasi feminist way by emphasizing the feminine in this “fairy tale” and discussing it against the male practices of power and domination. This book also introduces the Lake Constance region in terms of its history and geography, as well as the two St. Gallen reformers: Vadian and Ulrich Zwingli , who went down in theological history with his striking statements about the blessed pagans like Socrates as a liberal opponent of the strict Luther .

Works

  • Carl Hilty: Building blocks for happiness. Verlag Bär, Niederuzwil 2010, ISBN 978-3-9523212-4-9 . (with an essay on Stoa and Christianity and with Hilty's translation of the ethical handbook of Epictetus)
  • Carl Hilty: Political Responsibility. Bär Verlag, Niederuzwil 2010, ISBN 978-3-9523212-5-6 . (Political Yearbook of the Swiss Confederation, 1886–1910)
  • Ehe, Familie und Gesellschaft / Studies on marriage, family and society. Verlag Bär, Niederuzwil 2011, ISBN 978-3-9523212-6-3 . (German / English, with original texts by Carl Hilty and Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi)
  • Saint Gallus. History - legend - interpretation. Verlag Bär, Niederuzwil 2011, ISBN 978-3-9523212-6-3 . (with the Vita sancti Galli in German, with two essays by Robert Nef and Raphael Baer and restored texts by Vadianus, Heinrich Zschokke and Friedrich von Tschudi)

Awards

  • 2010 support from Südkultur, Office for Culture St. Gallen

Reviews

  • "Two extensive study and reading books on Carl Hilty" (Otto Ackermann), in the Werdenberg yearbook 2012, Historischer Verein Werdenberg, Verlag Buchs Medien 2011, p. 296
  • "Observer, contemporary witness and publicist" (Otto Ackermann), in: "Der Alvier", Werdenberger & Obertoggenburger of January 20, 2012, p. 11