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Gero Jenner

is a German-Austrian author and publicist whose publications cover science (philosophy, economics, linguistics) and literature. Jenner studied philosophy, indology and sinology in Hamburg, later in Munich, Paris and Rome. Right at the start of his studies, he was admitted to the prestigious „Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes“ (German Academic Scholarship Foundation). After being awarded a PH.D for his thesis on Indian (Sanskrit) Poetics, Jenner followed courses of sociology in Munich and London – these too supported by the fore-mentioned Foundation. He then worked for the École Française d 'Extrême Orient in Kyoto, Japan (Hobogirin), was coordinator for South Asia Research at the University of Heidelberg, then Lecturer in German Culture and Language at Tohoku University Sendai, Japan, and later Assistant at the department of Indology at Freie Universität Berlin. He interrupted his work on a habilitation thesis focussed on Patanjalis Yogasutram, producing instead a linguistic work for habilitation. This was rejected by the Commission „for formal reasons“. Thereafter Jenner left Berlin (1982) and moved to Austria, Puch near Graz. Since 1979 he is married to the sculptress Anna Jenner and works as an independent writer.

List of contents •	1 Philosophy

•	2 Politics and Social Economics

•	3 Linguistic Theory

•	4 Fiction

•	5Literature o	5.1Politics and Social Economics o	5.2Linguistic Theory o	5.3Philosophy o	5.4Fiction

•	6Weblinks

•	7References

1. Philosophy

From Jenner’s point of view, philosophy represents much more than just an academic discipline – today, preferably reduced to the two fields of analytic and historical philosophy. For him, philosophy is an attitude of mind, which consists, above all, of questioning what is supposed to be self-evident. In this sense, probing into the nature of science was always foremost in his mind, precisely because scientific truths are regarded to be beyond questioning. What relation do the laws of nature have to the laws ceated by man as these become manifest in culture, and, especially, in religions? Works

2. Politics and Social Economics

Sociological studies and a three-year stay in Japan were decisive factors for Jenner’s intensive dealings with problems of economic and monetary theory. Among other things, he sees an acute threat to the stability of society in the shift of wealth from achievement to automatic increase independent of personal endeavor and merit (i.e. through interest, dividends, speculation in resources etc.). Society thus splits into a majority getting progressively less for real work and a minority getting progressively more of the pie – for no work at all. Jenner has described the underlying process as a „ponzi scheme“ (Pyramidenspiel) that regularly culminates in economic and social collapse. While he sees a significant advance in the globalization of knowledge, he is a keen critic of the globalization of those financial and commodity flows that will make any distortions and breakdowns at certain points of the Earth a threat to the whole planet. Works

3. Linguistic Theory

In his textbooks on general linguistics, Jenner favors a generative approach similar to that of Noam Chomsky, but fundamentally different in so far as it is based on a strict dichotomy of meaning and form. According to Jenner, true generative grammar must rely on universal concepts, which allow the diversity of human languages to be analyzed analytically and generated synthetically making use of identical basic elements. Works

4. Fiction

Reason serves as an instrument of orientation in ordinary life. Unfortunately, reality itself rarely behaves according to its prescriptions, so people may sometimes feel an urgent need to recover from its excessive use. This need is at the base of Jenner’s narratives, where the world lacks ra-tionality to such a degree that some readers may feel disturbed. But that’s exactly the effect Jenner wants to produce in his tales and novels. He leaves the world as it is: Charmingly irrational, intriguingly absurd, and often quite evil. Works

5. Literature

5.1 Politics and social economics

•	Japan – eine untergehende Sonne? Peter Lang, 1997

•	Die arbeitslose Gesellschaft. S. Fischer, 1997

•	Das Ende des Kapitalismus – Triumph oder Kollaps eines Wirtschaftssystems? Fischer, 1999

•	Energiewende – So sichern wir Deutschlands Zukunft. Propyläen, 2006

•	Das Pyramidenspiel. Signum, 2008

•	Wohlstand und Armut – eine allgemeine Theorie über Eigentum, Geld, Güter und Staat. Metropo-lis, 2010

•	Von der Krise ins Chaos. Signum, 2012

•	EuroKalypse Now? Es gibt einen Weg aus der Krise! Metropolis, 2012

•	Technik, Terror und der kommende Weltstaat? unveröffentlicht, 2014[1]

•	Das Ökonomische Manifest – fünf Fundamentalreformen, um den Niedergang von Wirtschaft und Demokratie aufzuhalten. Monsenstein und Vannerdat, 2015

•	The Economic Manifesto

5.2 Linguistic Theory •	Die poetischen Figuren der Inder von Bhamaha bis Mammata. Schriftenreihe des Europakollegs, Ludwig Appel, 1968

•	The Place of Japanese in General Linguistics. Published in: Toyogakkai, 1974

•	Grammatica Nova. Peter Lang, 1981

•	Prolegomena zur Generellen Grammatik. Peter Lang, 1991

•	Principles of Language. Peter Lang, 1993

•	Principles of Language. Revised (http://www.gerojenner.com/wpe/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Principles-revised-2014.pdf)

5.3 Philosophy •	Max Weber’s Essays on the Sociology of Religion. Published in: Department of Law, Tokyo University, 1974

•	Wider den Stachel – Gespräche zur Zeit- und Kulturkritik. Peter Lang, 1985, C.H. Beck im Internet

•	Das Gottesproblem. Peter Lang, 2004

•	Der Dawkinswahn oder die Antwort der Mystik. unveröffentlicht, 2008 (http://www.gerojenner.com/wpe/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Der-Dawkinswahn-oder-die-Antwort-der-Mystik.pdf)

•	Die Macht der Träume und die Ohnmacht der Vernunft – eine Philosophie der Freiheit. Metropolis, 2013. English version: Doubt and Dogma – a Philosophy of Freedom in Nature and Man (http://www.gerojenner.com/wpe/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Doubt-and-Dogma.pdf)

5.4 Fiction •	Die Messingstadt und andere Erzählungen. Leykam, 1989

Using the pseudonym “Till Angersbrecht”Jenner published several novels:

•	Wien!

•	Die Weltenretter

•	Ego – oder das Unglück, ein Mann auf dem Mars zu sein

•	Schatten der Schuld

•	Die Botschaft, die ihr nicht hören wollt

•	Die Leiden des schwarzen Peters

6. Weblinks •	Philopedia - The Free Information Forum •	Literature from and about Gero Jenner in: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

7. References •	Technik, Terror und der kommende Weltstaat

•	Principles of Language

•	Der Dawkinswahn oder die Antwort der Mystik.