In the organizer's words:

"With this book, I am pursuing a dual objective: in a phase in which democracy as a form of government and society is on the retreat worldwide, it is intended to provide orientation, to counter popular misunderstandings of democracy, especially the different variants of populism, mainly from the right, but also partly from the left, but it also wants to clarify self-understandings of liberal democracy and, above all, to work out the special features of democratic opinion-forming and decision-making."

Julian Nida-Rümelin

He is a fearless fighter for democracy, fights for humanity in times of globalization and strengthens the role of art and culture as important drivers of society: Munich philosopher and former Minister of State Julian Nida-Rümelin. Democracy must be lived, says Nida-Rümelin, because "without a civil culture of respect, democracy is not viable." In his new book "Was Demokratie ausmacht" (Piper), he strikes both critical and hopeful tones and shows that despite omnipresent crises, democracy remains the only force that holds our society together. The book of the hour.

Organizer: Stiftung Literaturhaus

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