"Identity politics violates (...) equality by demanding different rules for different groups," says Bernd Stegemann in his book Identitätspolitik. But what does "equality" mean? Aren't some groups much more equal than others? Isn't identity politics more of a therapy than a violation? Is it not possible to "argue and act anti-universalistically in a certain sense for universalist reasons"? As Karsten Schubert writes in Praise of Identity Politics, we have to do this "because the universalist values of equality and freedom are concretized starting from particular standpoints". Sounds left-wing. But wouldn't "Germany-the-Germans" somehow also be identity politics? Stegemann, professor of dramaturgy at the HfS Ernst Busch, argues with Schubert, philosopher at Humboldt University, about one of the most important concepts of our time. Catherine Newmark -- publicist, philosopher and editor at Deutschlandfunk ("Sein und Streit") -- is our moderator (lat.: "who practices moderation").
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