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Elizabeth Kolbert. Translated from English by Ulrike Bischoff: How man creates the nature of the future

ECOLOGY: With technological scenarios in abundance, scientists are faced with sky-high challenges. One of them is human ignorance paired with indifference.

Günter Frankenberg: Authoritarianism. Constitutional theoretical perspectives

THE AUTHORITY: Authoritarian leaders only follow the Constitution as long as they profit from it.

Andrew Reckwitz: The End of Illusions. Politics, Economics and Culture in the Late Modern

THE MIDDLE CLASS: Relevant in these corona times is whether Reckwitz's analysis opens up for a restructuring of the economy back to a "real economy" – from the cultural capitalism where the goods promise consumers symbolic, narrative, aesthetic and ethical experiences.

Heinz Bude / Alexander Sedlmaier / Christina von Hodenberg: Adorno for Ruinschildren: A History of 1968 / Consumption and Violence: Radical Protest in the Federal Republic / The Other Eighties: Social History of a Revolt

: Three newly published books about the sixty-eight provide partly surprising and new perspectives. All are written by scientists who do not even belong to this mythical generation.

Peter Handke: The Obstdiebin

: An award-winning provocateur – accused of being co-responsible for the atrocities during the Bosnian war – may have written his latest work.

Peter Sloterdijk: In the same boat. About hyperpolitics / Nach Gott

: What do we have left in the unfaithful society – where man will not obey any higher power, but even be this power?