Eva Illouz: Explosive Moderne

In the organizer's words:

About the book
Fear, disappointment and anger, but also shame and love, are firmly embedded in the social arrangements of Western modernity - and are intensively cultivated by its economy, politics and culture. They are psychologically relevant, morally significant, politically effective - and highly ambivalent.

Illouz illuminates these phenomena in a masterful composition of sociological analyses, historical miniatures and readings of iconic works of world literature. The fading of the American dream and the fragility of liberal democracy, the hamster wheel of capitalism and the conflicts surrounding identity, but also anti-Semitism, racism and misogyny: they can neither be understood nor contained or combated without reference to the key feelings of the explosive modern age.

Moderation: Shelly Kupferberg

In German and English.

In cooperation with Sparkasse Bremen.