Jüdischer Salon im Grünen Salon

Moderation: Christina von Braun 

Politics of fear, spirals of disappointment, people in rage. In her new book, Eva Illouz looks at our troubled times from the perspective of the emotions that characterise them. 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. This is what makes the present in which we live so volatile, even explosive.

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: without reference to the key feelings of the explosive modern age, they can neither be understood nor contained or combated. This is demonstrated by this book, which is as captivating as it is timely.

The event will be hold in Englis.