Trust in the ability of political elites to deal with the eco-social consequences of climate change is evaporating. Reaching eco-political targets calls for more participation of citizens as active architects of their society, write Claus Leggewie and Harald Welzer. [ more ]
"Esprit" watches market prophecies self-fulfil; "Blätter" calls off the bets in the financial casino; "Mute" refutes the received wisdom about inflation; "Dilema veche" notes how the financial crisis is reimposing the East-West divide; "New Humanist" turns to Durkheim to make sense of the depression; "Wespennest" doesn't give in to resignation; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) enters the belly of the piggy bank; "Vikerkaar" heeds cultures' anthropophagic appeal; "Dialogi" warns of a cultural wasteland in Maribor; and "Kritika & Kontext" returns a lost son to Bratislava.
(b. 1953) was cultural correspondent for the Frankfurter Rundschau in Berlin until 2006. He is author of In den Augen meines Großvaters, Munich: dva 2004.
Political scientist Tom Lampert in conversation with Heinz Bude and Thomas Medicus
Tom Lampert on his book One Life, eight biographies based on archive material from Nazi Germany that resist clear-cut moral and formal distinction-making. [more]
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