Tag: Non-fiction
Corona and children: Reckoning over a policy “flying blind”. – Politics
Basically, the title says it all. “Not systemically relevant” is the title given by philosopher and medical ethicist Christoph Schickhardt to his reckoning with the fatal German Corona policy with…
Karl-Heinz Kohl: “Nine Tribes” – Culture
The West has had a massive influence on indigenous cultures, but the other way around too: the ethnologist Karl-Heinz Kohl shows where the traces of this exchange are still visible…
Interview with Habermas biographer Philipp Felsch – Culture
Is Jürgen Habermas’s attitude to the Ukraine conflict characterized by “naive pacifism,” as critics accuse him of? No, says historian of ideas and Habermas biographer Philipp Felsch. It is about…
Steffen Mau: “Unequally united”: Finally scars
In his new book, sociologist Steffen Mau examines East-West differences that are here to stay. It is a relieving and constructive contribution in times of helplessness. source site
Rashid Khalidi: “The Hundred Years’ War for Palestine” – Culture
Forty years ago, a process began in the Israeli academic community that fundamentally revised the historical self-image on which Israel based its political culture. Sociological and contemporary historical research subjected…
German Non-Fiction Prize 2024 – Culture
The German Non-Fiction Prize 2024 goes to Christina Morina for her book “A Thousand New Beginnings – The Germans and their Democracy since the 1980s” (Siedler Verlag). The Bielefeld historian…
German colonial crimes: In the best civil service manner
In 2010, a book revealed the involvement of the Foreign Office in Nazi crimes. Now a book is being published on the agency’s role in colonial crimes. Is it just…
Andreas Petersen “The East and the Unconscious”: “And shouldn’t we be able to improve people?”
Between state project and anti-Semitic resentment: Andreas Petersen tells the story of psychoanalysis in Eastern Europe. source site
Wolfgang Kraushaar: “Israel: Hamas, Gaza, Palestine” – Culture
The subtitle of Wolfgang Kraushaar’s new book “Israel, Hamas, Gaza, Palestine” speaks of a “seemingly insoluble conflict”. The subtitle not only allows for a rather laconic and disillusioned reading, but…
Giving democracy a chance: A political scientist’s plea – Politics
SZ: Mr. Ansell, the title of your book speaks of political failure – an accusation that often comes from populists. Ben Ansell: The title does indeed allude to the feeling…