9 | IDENTITY OF EUROPE

Politics and war are irreconcilable opposites when they take on a radical form - as a civic, pluralistic form of self-determination on the one hand and total annihilation on the other. There are also diverse forms such as authoritarian politics and war as politics by other means. Their positive relationship to violence is risky, however, because violence as a means to an end all too easily takes on a life of its own. The current national and international crises promote the acceptance of violence. They raise the questions of whether these are crises of democracy or of governance in complex societies in general, what institutional populist, expertocratic or grassroots democratic alternatives are offered, and what role identity discourses play - whether for the social emancipation of minorities, for the ethno-nationalist dominance of politics or for the mobilization for war and its justification.

 

Lecturers:

Ringo Rösener, University Leipzig, Germany                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
Thiago Dias Hannah Arendt Center Verona Philosophy          

Rafael Kasper, UFRGS Porto Alegre, Brazil 

 

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