Few cultural debates are currently being conducted as emotionally as those about “cancel culture”. The sharp-tongued Austrian philosopher and essayist Konrad Paul Liessmann is very worried: “A furor has gripped the intellectual life of the Western world that will stop at nothing. The activists want to silence people, they want to eliminate, cross out, get rid of “, he writes in one of his essays.
For his book “Cancel Culture Transfer: How a Moral Panic Is Gripping the World”, the German Stanford professor Adrian Daub examined American forums in which alleged cancellation cases are documented. His conclusion: Most of the time, the allegedly canceled professors were dismissed for other reasons. There are problematic individual cases, but no large-scale abuses.
The two opponents will meet in a panel discussion on June 14th at the Literaturhaus in Munich.
Adrian Daub and Konrad Paul Liessmann, Wed, June 14, 7 p.m., Literaturhaus Munich, literaturhaus-muenchen.de