Respekt ist zumutbar

Reading and discussion with Carolin Emcke, moderated by Lena Gorelik

How to deal with violence and misanthropy? What can be done to counter authoritarian regimes and attacks on freedom and equality? And what does humanism mean today?
Carolin Emcke is a contemporary witness who thinks cosmopolitan and local. She examines social and political conflicts with a close eye and calls for opposition to a lack of empathy.
empathy. She asks who we want to be in times of infiltration or destruction of democracy and truth. The volume "Respekt ist zumutbar" (Respect is reasonable) brings together texts and speeches by Carolin Emcke from the last ten years. Born in 1967, she has traveled to crisis regions around the world and reported on them. In 2003/2004, she was a Visiting Lecturer in Political Theory at Yale University. Carolin Emcke has been organizing and moderating the discussion series "Streitraum" at the Schaubühne Berlin for over ten years. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. In the Süddeutsche Zeitung podcast "In aller Ruhe", she talks calmly with her guests about the issues of our time.