Ton Lemaire
Ton Lemaire (1941, Rotterdam) is a Dutch anthropologist, writer and philosopher, who moved to France to start a new way of life as an organic farmer. He lives almost completely of his own grown food, uses hardly any mechanical or electrical facilities. We, according his philosophy, believing in endless progress, started to project our hope to the future, we forgot and sacrificed old knowledge, wisdom and traditions. As the industrial system is falling apart, we will be standing helpless to watch the collaps. For Lemaire it is importand to regain in time the archaic cultural patterns, which have been set aside during industrial age. They can correct the course of western culture and western society. According to Lemaire did ecologists clear that the idea of endless growth is an illusion, anthropologists proved that people still need a place where they feel at home and philosophers that a meaningful existence is not something we can created ourselves but something that is granted to us by nature and environment. Sensuosity is the link that connects all these insights to one another. Only in sensing and observing the world we are able to realize that we are imbedded in a world upon which we are all deeply dependent.
Tom Lemaire graduated in the cultural antropology in Utrecht, in philosophy at Sorbonne Paris and at the University of Nijmegen. After he graduated he was teaching cultural philosophy class at the Radboud Universiteit in Nijmegen. In seventies he became strongly involved in ecological activism movement. In 1991 left Lemaire Holland as an 'ecological emigrant' and settled in Dordogne where he lives surrounded by landcape which would be less poluted by industry and noise.
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