Including a Foreword by Habermas himself, this book of interviews with leading thinkers is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the challenges facing democracy and liberalism today. It will be of great interest to those in philosophy, sociology, politics, religion and law.
An engaging and accessible book of interviews with leading thinkers on the ideas of Jurgen Habermas and threats to democracy and the public sphere
Covers urgent and importnat topics such as fake news, experts and expertise, populism, authoritarianism, human rights and the legacy of slavery
Includes a Foreword by Habermas
Emilie Prattico studied philosophy at the University of Oxford, UK, and at Northwestern University, USA, where she studied with Habermas. Since completing her doctoral work in philosophy on Habermas's theory of deliberative democracy, she has focused her work on pushing for more ambitious climate action on the part of governments and companies.
Foreword Jurgen Habermas Introduction Emilie Prattico 1. Can some basic rights and liberties be given up to safeguard democracy? An interview with Hauke Brunkhorst 2. How does actual deliberation confer legitimacy to democratic decisions? An interview Cristina Lafont 3. Why is fake news a crisis of democracy? An interview with Michael Lynch 4. How can we build a public sphere together and share it in a world characterized by divisiveness and tribalism? An interview with Barbara Fultner 5. Can democracy survive without the voice of experts? An interview with Kenneth Baynes 6. How dangerous are the current forms of authoritarianism we are seeing take hold all over the world? An interview with Maria Pia Lara 7. What does the public sphere look like with new technologies? An interview with Gertrud Koch 8. What duties do we owe descendants of slaves and how do we reckon with our antidemocratic and oppressive past? An interview with Lorenzo Simpson. Index