55 Voices for Democracy: Rainer Forst | Paulskirche Frankfurt

Rainer Forst on Neglecting of Democracy (in German. English subtitles available).
The series “55 Voices for Democracy” is inspired by the 55 BBC radio addresses Thomas Mann delivered from his home in California to thousands of listeners in Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, and the occupied Netherlands and Czechoslovakia between October 1940 and November 1945. In his monthly addresses, Mann spoke out strongly against fascism, becoming the most significant German defender of democracy in exile. Building on that legacy, “55 Voices” brings together internationally-esteemed intellectuals, scientists, and artists to present ideas for the renewal of democracy in our own troubled times.
For more information visit vatmh.org/55voices
Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst has been Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2004. He has been Co-Founder and Speaker of the Research Center “Normative Orders” since 2007 and of the DFG Center for Advanced Studies “Justitia Amplificata” since 2009. Furthermore, he has been the Director of the Leibniz Research Group “Transnational Justice” since 2012, Research Professor at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) since 2017 and Deputy Speaker of the Frankfurt branch of the “Research Institute for Social Cohesion” since 2020. His research focuses on questions of justice, democracy and tolerance as well as Critical Theory and practical reason in the tradition of Immanuel Kant.
The series is presented by the Thomas Mann House in cooperation with Deutschlandfunk, the Los Angeles Review of Books and Süddeutsche Zeitung, funded by the Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media and the Berthold Leibinger Foundation.
From September 2nd on, Frankfurt's St. Paul’s Church will permanently present the Lectures in its exhibition. The ceremony on the occasion of the opening of the 55 Voices media stations, with speeches by Thomas Mann Fellows Jutta Allmedinger and Rainer Forst as well as Honorary Fellow Frido Mann, was broadcasted as a live stream.

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Ein wunderbarer Vortrag, der durch seine Klarheit, seine Menschlichkeit und nicht zuletzt durch seine Aktualität beeindruckt.

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Rainer Frost schafft es, in diesen 12 Minuten