E23 | Poly (Meta) Modernity and Bildung with Lene Rachel Andersen

Lene Rachel Andersen is an economist, author, futurist, philosopher and Bildung activist. In this episode, we discuss the concepts of meta and polymodernity and why the educational model known as Bildung might be the key to helping young people better navigate life in the information age.  Interested in learning more? Lene warmly invites you to join the conversation "What it Means to Be Human" on September 21st – this virtual event is free of charge. Sign up here: https://www.globalbildung.net/what-it-means-to-be-human-2024-september-21/ Since 2005, Lene has written 20 books including The Nordic Secret (2017; new edition January 2024), Metamodernity (2019) (relaunched 2023 as Polymodernity) Bildung (2020), What is Bildung? (2021), and Libertism (2022) and she received two Danish democracy awards: Ebbe Kløvedal-Reich Democracy Baton (2007) and Døssing Prisen, the Danish librarians’ democracy prize (2012). Lene is a member of the Club of Rome, President of the Copenhagen based think tank Nordic Bildung, and co-founder of the Global Bildung Network. You can find her work here.