Arjun Appadurai, Zygmunt Bauman, Donatella della Porta, Nancy Fraser, Eva Illouz, Ivan Krastev, Bruno Latour, Paul Mason, Pankaj Mishra, Robert Misik, Oliver Nachtwey, César Rendueles, Wolfgang Streeck, David Van Reybrouck, Slavoj Žižek
The Great Regression
An International Debate
Edited by Heinrich Geiselberger
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Arjun Appadurai, Zygmunt Bauman, Donatella della Porta, Nancy Fraser, Eva Illouz, Ivan Krastev, Bruno Latour, Paul Mason, Pankaj Mishra, Robert Misik, Oliver Nachtwey, César Rendueles, Wolfgang Streeck, David Van Reybrouck, Slavoj Žižek
The Great Regression / Die große Regression
An International Debate
Edited by Heinrich Geiselberger
The huge international debate on rightwing populism – appearing simultaneously in thirteen languages!
At the latest, since the effects of the financial crisis became clear and migration to the European Union began to grow, we have seen developments that many had thought were the phenomena of a distant age: the rise of nationalistic, in part anti-liberal parties like the Front National and the Alternative für Deutschland, the profound crisis of the EU, a coarsening of public discourse thanks to demagogues like Donald Trump, a growing distrust of the established media and the spread of...
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At the latest, since the effects of the financial crisis became clear and migration to the European Union began to grow, we have seen developments that many had thought were the phenomena of a distant age: the rise of nationalistic, in part anti-liberal parties like the Front National and the Alternative für Deutschland, the profound crisis of the EU, a coarsening of public discourse thanks to demagogues like Donald Trump, a growing distrust of the established media and the spread of xenophobic ideas... all of which are a reminder of dark times. Politicians are vilified as »traitors to the fatherland«, Muslims are under general suspicion and the internet is awash with the crudest of conspiracy theories.
In this collection, internationally renowned researchers and intellectuals examine the causes of this »Great Regression«, locate them in a historical context, introduce scenarios for the coming years and discuss strategies we can use to resist such developments.
With contributions from Arjun Appadurai, Zygmunt Bauman, Donatella della Porta, Nancy Fraser, Eva Illouz, Ivan Krastev, Bruno Latour, Paul Mason, Pankaj Mishra, Robert Misik, Oliver Nachtwey, César Rendueles, Wolfgang Streeck, David Van Reybrouck and Slavoj Žižek.
Further information about this project, videos, excerpts and discussions, on our homepage: www.thegreatregression.eu
»Here the spectrum of interpretative possibilities to the left of the political centre have been well sounded out.« Barbara Kuchler, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
»Where are we? This is a tough question to answer these days … And in this respect, the present volume has come at precisely the right time.« Walter Hollstein, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»A collaborative book for a world in the process of sealing itself off.« Libération
» ...a topical and excellent anthology.« Caroline Fetscher, Der Tagesspiegel
»A book that demands to be discussed and debated ... « Gesine Reichstein, radio bremen
»This book is recommended reading for anyone who’d like to understand some of the driving forces behind the turn to Pegida, the AfD, Trump, Brexit, Le Pen, Orban, and Wilders.« literatourismus.net
»The Great Regression not only offers various analyses of the reasons for the success of populism, but numerous and distinct perspectives as well.« Hans-Martin Schönherr-Mann, Deutschlandfunk
»Those who engage with this book will be rewarded with many surprising points of view and undogmatic lines of thought.« ekz.bibliotheksservice 2017/20
»An international debate on the causes of this great regression as well as ways out and democratic alternatives can be an important contribution to a desperately needed change of course. Suhrkamp Verlag’s collection offers an initial…overview and abundant points of entry into the discussion.« Kulturbuchtipps
»Here the spectrum of interpretative possibilities to the left of the political centre have been well sounded out.« Barbara Kuchler, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
»Where are we? This is a tough question to answer these days … And in this respect, the present volume has come at precisely the right time.« Walter Hollstein, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»A collaborative book for a world in the process of sealing itself off.« Libération
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Arjun Appadurai
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Arjun Appadurai, born in Mumbai in 1949, is Goddard Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University and currently a visiting lecturer at the Institute of European Ethnology at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Arjun Appadurai
Author
Arjun Appadurai, born in Mumbai in 1949, is Goddard Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University and currently a visiting...
Zygmunt Bauman
Author
Zygmunt Bauman was born in Poznań in 1925 and died in Leeds in 2017. His last teaching post was at the University of Leeds. He is considered one of the most important contemporary sociologists and has received numerous prizes and awards.
Zygmunt Bauman
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Zygmunt Bauman was born in Poznań in 1925 and died in Leeds in 2017. His last teaching post was at the University of Leeds. He is considered one...
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Donatella della Porta
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Donatella della Porta, born in Catania in 1956, is professor of Political Sciences and director of the Centre of Social Movement Studies at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence.
Donatella della Porta
Author
Donatella della Porta, born in Catania in 1956, is professor of Political Sciences and director of the Centre of Social Movement Studies at the...
Eva Illouz
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Eva Illouz, born in Morocco in 1961, is Directrice d’Etudes at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, CESSP-EHESS in Paris. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Annaliese Meier International Award for Excellence in Research and the E.M.E.T Award for Social Sciences, the highest scientific distinction in Israel. In 2022, Academic Influence listed her among the Influential Women in Sociology From the Last 10 Years (#8).
Eva Illouz
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Eva Illouz, born in Morocco in 1961, is Directrice d’Etudes at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, CESSP-EHESS in...
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Ivan Krastev
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Ivan Krastev, born in Lukovit in 1965, is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and permanent fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. Since 2015, he has been writing regular analyses for the international edition of The New York Times.
Ivan Krastev
Author
Ivan Krastev, born in Lukovit in 1965, is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and permanent fellow at the Institute of...
Bruno Latour
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Bruno Latour, born in 1947, is a professor at the Sciences Politiques Paris and Deputy Director of the Centre of Sociologie des Organisations (CSO).
Bruno Latour
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Bruno Latour, born in 1947, is a professor at the Sciences Politiques Paris and Deputy Director of the Centre of Sociologie des Organisations...
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Paul Mason
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Paul Mason, born in Leigh in 1960, is a British author and multi-award-winning television journalist. He worked for the BBC and Channel 4 News for many years and regularly writes for The Guardian.
Paul Mason
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Paul Mason, born in Leigh in 1960, is a British author and multi-award-winning television journalist. He worked for the BBC and Channel 4 News for...
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Pankaj Mishra
Author
Pankaj Mishra, born in Jhansi in 1969, is an Indian essayist, literary critic and writer. He writes for publication such as The New York Times, the New York Review of Books and The Guardian. In 2014, he was awarded the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding.
Pankaj Mishra
Author
Pankaj Mishra, born in Jhansi in 1969, is an Indian essayist, literary critic and writer. He writes for publication such as The New York...
Robert Misik
Author
Robert Misik, born in Vienna in 1966, is a journalist and political author. His most recent essay Die falschen Freunde der einfachen Leute was awarded the Bruno-Kreisky-Preis für das politische Buch in 2019. The prize promotes political literature that advocates freedom, equality, social justice, solidarity, tolerance, the fight against right-wing extremism and artistic freedom.
Robert Misik
Author
Robert Misik, born in Vienna in 1966, is a journalist and political author. His most recent essay Die falschen Freunde der einfachen Leute...
Oliver Nachtwey
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Oliver Nachtwey, born in 1975, is an Associate Professor of Social Structure Analysis at the University of Basel and an associated Scholar at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt/Main. He was awarded the Hans-Matthöfer-Preis für Wirtschaftspublizistik for his work Die Abstiegsgesellschaft.
Oliver Nachtwey
Author
Oliver Nachtwey, born in 1975, is an Associate Professor of Social Structure Analysis at the University of Basel and an associated Scholar at the...
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Wolfgang Streeck
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Wolfgang Streeck, born in 1946, was the director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Research in Cologne until 2014. He is a member of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea, Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and Honorary Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. His book Gekaufte Zeit. Die vertagte Krise des demokratischen Kapitalismus was nominated for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2013 (non-fiction category) and has been translated into 17 languages to date.
Wolfgang Streeck
Author
Wolfgang Streeck, born in 1946, was the director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Research in Cologne until 2014. He is a member of the...
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David Van Reybrouck
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David Van Reybrouck, born in Bruges in 1971, is a writer, playwright, journalist, archaeologist and historian. In 2011, he founded the Initiative G1000, which advocates for democratic innovations in Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain. Congo: The Epic History of a People was published to great international acclaim and received numeorus awards and prizes. His book Against Elections: The Case for Democracy was met with great attention throughout Europe.
David Van Reybrouck
Author
David Van Reybrouck, born in Bruges in 1971, is a writer, playwright, journalist, archaeologist and historian. In 2011, he founded the Initiative...
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Slavoj Žižek
Author
Slavoj Žižek, born in 1949, is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Slavoj Žižek
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Slavoj Žižek, born in 1949, is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, international...
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Explosive Modernity
In her new book, sociologist Eva Illouz takes a look at our highly charged present from the perspective of the emotions that forge it. Envy and rage, jealousy and shame, disappointment and love are...
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The Emotional Life of Populism
Throughout the world, democracy is under assault by various populist movements and ideologies. And throughout the world, the same enigma: why is it that political figures or governments, who have...
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The Great Sense of New Beginnings
Shattering conventions, revolutionising perceptions, imagining new things – that was the spirit of radical modernism. Bertolt Brecht spoke of the great sense of new beginnings. Today, all utopian optimism seems to have evaporated – is it a thing of the past?
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»Not at all!« is Robert Misik’s reply to such laments. He sets out on a tour de...
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What is Sexual Capital?
It is not nature that determines our ideas about sexuality, but society. Whereas it was religion that regulated sex in the past, today it is the economy. No wonder, then, that »sexual«...
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Year of Publication: 2021
Wolfgang StreeckYear of Publication: 2021
Between Globalism and Democracy
In the heyday of neoliberalism globalisation was considered inevitable and redistributive democracy obsolete. The promise was prosperity for all, the result was growing inequality. Economic...
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Robert MisikYear of Publication: 2019
The False Friends of the Common People
Old parties are disappearing, new ones are emerging. The guiding principles of discourse are changing. As chaotic as the political situation presents itself, as confusing is the range of...
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The End of Love
Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people's lives – the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined to us, the feverish waiting for...
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Oliver NachtweyYear of Publication: 2016
Germany’s Hidden Crisis
The possibility for upward social mobility was one of the central promises of the »old« Germany – and indeed for the most part it held true: the VW Beetle became an Audi, the children of craftsmen...
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Eva IllouzYear of Publication: 2015
Is it possible to be a Jewish Intellectual?
What is happening in a country where security is of such importance that a female physician is willing to take part in a conspiracy to commit murder because she is convinced that in doing so she...
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Year of Publication: 2013
Eva IllouzYear of Publication: 2013
Hard-Core Romance
E.L. James’s BDSM Fifty Shades trilogy was an enormous success worldwide, particularly with women. But why? Because of the allegedly pornographic content? Because it was...
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Year of Publication: 2013
Wolfgang StreeckYear of Publication: 2013
Buying Time
The crisis has us all on tenterhooks and creates a pervasive sense of disorientation. Problems so large as to be entirely inscrutable provoke measures that seem like emergency open heart surgery on...
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Eva IllouzYear of Publication: 2011
Why Love Hurts
After the great success of Consuming the Romantic Utopia, Cold Intimacies and Saving the Modern Soul, Eva Illouz’ Why Love Hurts is yet another great...
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Year of Publication: 2011
Bruno LatourYear of Publication: 2011
Cogitamus
Seminal case studies on collective thinking by the founder of political ecology.
»Cogito ergo sum« – »I think, therefore I am.«
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»Cogito ergo sum« – »I think, therefore I am.«
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Eva IllouzYear of Publication: 2006
Cold Intimacies
This book dispels some conventionally received ideas: namely, that capitalism has created an a-emotional world dominated by bureaucratic rationality; that economic behaviour conflicts with...
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Slavoj ŽižekYear of Publication: 2003
The Puppet and the Dwarf
»Slavoj Žižek has been called »an academic rock star« and »the wild man of theory«; his writing mixes astonishing erudition and references to pop culture in order to dissect current intellectual...
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Axel Honneth, Nancy FraserYear of Publication: 2003
Redistribution or Recognition
This volume moves the broad debate forward that has been taking place in the framework of political philosophy and has hinged on the concept of recognition and how it relates to theories of...
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Slavoj ŽižekYear of Publication: 2001
On Belief
What is the basis of belief in an era when globalization, multiculturalism and big business are the new religion?
Below the surface of our ostensibly secular culture, the structure of faith is...
Below the surface of our ostensibly secular culture, the structure of faith is...
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