The American philosopher Martha Nussbaum summed up her study of ways to overcome the politics of fear (The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age, 2013) as follows: Our time is genuinely dangerous. As we have seen, many fears are rational, and appeals to fear have a role to play […]
Thomas Meyer
Thomas Meyer is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Dortmund and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Neue Gesellschaft/Frankfurter Hefte.