“Some people are complaining these days that our society is ‘divided’. I would like to say quite clearly here: The opposite is true! Our country stands together,” Olaf Scholz asserted in his New Year’s speech. Precisely because conflicts and divisions are constantly being seen in the public debate. The new book by the philosopher Armen Avanessian is about this simultaneity of inflationary conflict diagnoses on the one hand and conflict phobia on the other. It is entitled “Conflict. The Urgency of Solving Tomorrow’s Problems Today” and attempts to rehabilitate the conflict as a productive negotiation process.
Armen Avanessian: “Conflict” – Culture
