Society
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30th July 2024
Transitory Memory Work
In 2020, following the call of the German-Polish protest art collective Dziewuchy Berlin, a large group of feminist activists, elves, sorceresses and ghosts draped in lace gathered at the Berlin monument to the Polish soldier and German anti-fascist. The participants were protesting against a further tightening of abortion laws in Poland. How does the protest change this monument? The essay discusses protest as a moment of transnational culture of remembrance.
14th May 2024
Doing Pluralism
Right-wing extremist and right-wing populist concepts of society are often condemned across the board without recognising that they offer their supporters a coherent and attractive meaning. Pluralist democrats need a clearer understanding of pluralism in order to reject forms of life that are anti-democratic and anti-pluralist, but also to accept or tolerate those who merely follow a different idea of the good life. The "Doing Pluralism" approach outlined here attempts to provide an impetus for this.
5th March 2024
Intuitions in Ethical Judgement - Helpful or Misleading?
In our everyday lives, we constantly have to make decisions. We make many of these decisions spontaneously, on instinct. Others we think about longer, weigh up the pros and cons and try to find good reasons for our actions. Morally relevant decisions involve both - sometimes more intuitive, sometimes more reflective.