HANS HASS
ENERGON THEORY
The hidden common feature in the evolution of life.
All forms are similar, and none is the same as the other;
and so the Chorus points at a secret law,
at a holy enigma.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We have to hurry.
If we continue sleeping, Europe will,
like so many great nations before it, sink-,
and nobody will have understood why and wherefore.
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
Translated from the German by Elisabeth Zinschitz
Originally published under the title
Energon: Das verborgene
Gemeinsame
(1970)
Table of Contents
PART ONE: ENERGONS AND THEIR FORMS OF ACQUISITION
I The
hidden common feature
II Vehicles
of effect
III The consequences
IV Lock and key
V
Requirement as energy source
VI
The framework of competitiveness
VII
The enigma of effectiveness
PART TWO: FURTHER OUTER FRONTS
I Spear and
shield
II The limits
of will
III Functional
expansion
IV Cycles
V Horse and
horseman
VI Horses
that are fed
PART THREE: THE „INNER FRONTS“
I Ties
II The origin
of the „I“
III Matching
IV Preservation
V Sex and research
VI The life flow
PART FOUR: LIFE FLOW AND HUMAN BEINGS
I
Competition and the area of acquisition
II Why and
for
which purpose?
III The
four shapes of the state
IV The big wage-earners
V The colourful
garden
VI Development
VII Today and tomorrow
APPENDIX
I The word “soul“
II Teilhard de Chardin
III Marshall McLuhan
IV The extended theory of
evolution
V Energy