Post-Enlightenment Society, Part 2: What Lies Ahead?

In the second half of this double episode of Sustainability Matters, we explore the rise of the Post-Enlightenment Society. What happens when opinion travels faster than knowledge? How do digital communication, education, and mass politics affect democracy? And is the erosion of Enlightenment values a failure of citizens, institutions, or both?

All this and more with Prof. Dr. Markus Tiedemann, author of Post-Enlightenment-Society: What we are losing and what lies ahead, published by De Gruyter Brill.

Host: Ramzi Nasir

Guest: Prof. Dr. Markus Tiedemann

Shownotes:

John McWhorter: Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America. Portfolio, New York 2021 ISBN 978-0-593-42306-6.

Susan Neiman: Left Is Not Woke, Polity, 2023.

Samuel L Jackson on the N-Word:
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