Respect Is Within Reason: Texts on Our Present

  • The best columns and speeches by one of the sharpest minds and chroniclers of our time.

There is no hierarchy of humans

How to deal with violence and misanthropy? What can be be done to counter authoritarian regimes and attacks on freedom and equality? And what does humanism mean today? Carolin Emcke is a witness of our time, thinking both cosmopolitan and local. With an unflinching gaze, she dissects social and political conflicts and calls for resistance against exclusion and a lack of empathy. She asks: who do we want to be in times of the destruction of democracy and truth? This volume brings together the best columns and speeches by Carolin Emcke from the past ten years.

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  • Publisher: S. FISCHER
  • Release: 24.09.2025
  • ISBN: 978-3-10-397740-0
  • 368 Pages
  • Author: Carolin Emcke
Respect Is Within Reason: Texts on Our Present
Carolin Emcke Respect Is Within Reason: Texts on Our Present
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Carolin Emcke

Carolin Emcke studied philosophy in London, Frankfurt am Main and Harvard. She has travelled to crisis regions around the world and addresses issues of violence, democracy and human rights in her essays. Her books have been translated into over 15 languages. She has received numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Carl von Ossietzky Prize and the Soul of Stonewall Prize. S. Fischer has published 'Echoes of Violence: Letters from a War Reporter', 'Silent Violence: Reflecting on the Red Army Faction', 'How We Desire', 'Because you may say it: On witnessing and justice', 'Against Hate', 'Yes means yes and ...' and 'Journal - Diary of a Crisis'. Carolin Emcke lives in Berlin.