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Brought to you by Penguin.The origins, consequences and limitations of an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the world.For much of their history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious and sexual minorities. It is no surprise then that many who passionately believe in social justice have come to believe that members of marginalized groups need to take pride in their identity if they are to resist injustice...

»Wie man gegen Identitätspolitik argumen­tiert, ohne sich in einen reaktionären Spinner zu verwandeln.«¿Steven PinkerDer Politikwissenschaftler und ZEIT-Herausgeber Yascha Mounk geht dem Ursprung der neuen Ideen über Identität und soziale Gerechtigkeit nach ¿ und erklärt, warum sie ihre hehren Ziele nicht erreichen werden. »Es ist an der Zeit, ohne Scham oder Zögern für eine Zukunft zu kämpfen, in der das, was uns verbindet, wichtiger wird als...

Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy should read this book'ANNE APPLEBAUMOne of our most important political thinkers looks to the greatest challenge of our time: how to live together equally and peacefully in diverse democracies. It's easy to be pessimistic about the fate of democracy in multi-ethnic societies. At the end of the Second World War, fewer than one in twenty-five people living in the UK were born abroad, now it is...

One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and social justice that is rapidly transforming America—and explains why it will fail to accomplish its noble goalsFor much of history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities. It is no surprise that many who passionately believe in social justice came to believe that members of marginalized groups need to take pride i...

For much of their history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious and sexual minorities. It is no surprise then that many who passionately believe in social justice have come to believe that members of marginalized groups need to take pride in their identity if they are to resist injustice.But over the past decades, a healthy appreciation for the culture and heritage of minorities has transformed into an obsession with group iden...

One of Barack Obama's Recommended Reads for Summer “[A] brave and necessary book . . . Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy, in the US or anywhere else, should read this book.” —Anne Applebaum“A convincing, humane, and hopeful guide to the present and future by one of our foremost democratic thinkers.” —George Packer“A rare thing: [an] academic treatise . . . that may actually have influence in the arena of practical politics. ...

From one of our sharpest and most important political thinkers, a brilliant big-picture vision of the greatest challenge of our time-how to bridge the bitter divides within diverse democracies enough for them to remain stable and functionalLooking around the world, it's easy to be pessimistic about the fate of democracy in multiethnic societies. The Right has long been the source of skepticism about the idea of power-sharing and equality betwe...

Kann Demokratie in einer diversen Gesellschaft funktionieren? Politikwissenschaftler Yascha Mounk zeigt, wie dieses Experiment gelingt. Er liefert die Gebrauchsanweisung für unsere plurale Gesellschaft. Globalisierung, Migration und Identitätspolitik prägen Deutschland und stellen das politische Systems vor ungeahnte Herausforderungen. Wie kann eine demokratische Verfassung die sozialen und politischen Zentrifugalkräfte einer multiethnischen G...

It's easy to be pessimistic about the fate of democracy in multiethnic societies. The Right has long been the source of scepticism about the idea of power-sharing and equality, while the Left, traditionally the source of universal humanist ideals, has grown more pessimistic about the ability of different groups to truly integrate, celebrating their differences without essentialising them. It's a difficult issue, and for good reason. The projec...

It's easy to be pessimistic about the fate of democracy in multiethnic societies. The Right has long been the source of scepticism about the idea of power-sharing and equality, while the Left, traditionally the source of universal humanist ideals, has grown more pessimistic about the ability of different groups to truly integrate, celebrating their differences without essentialising them. It's a difficult issue, and for good reason. The projec...

»Hör auf zu lügen! Jeder weiß, dass es keine Juden mehr gibt.« Mit diesem Kommentar seines Klassenkameraden beginnt für Yascha Mounk die Auseinandersetzung mit seinem Jüdischsein. Er, der als einer von zwei Juden (er und seine Mutter) in dem schwäbischen Nest Laupheim aufgewachsen ist, erlebte das verkrampfte Verhältnis vieler Deutscher zu Juden bereits in jungen Jahren. Ob es antisemitischeReaktionen sind oder das Gegenteil, betontes Wohlwoll...

Die Demokratie droht zu sterben. Politik-Verweigerung und rechts-populistische Parteien wie AfD, FPÖ, Lega und Front National untergraben stabile Regierungen. Der Havard-Politologe Yascha Mounk legt in diesem politischen Sachbuch Gründe und Mechanismen offen, die westliche liberale Rechtsstaaten - so auch die USA unter Donald Trump - erodieren lassen. Die Demokratie steckt weltweit in einer tiefen Krise. Die Zahl der Protest-Wähler steigt, Po...

A New York Times Book Review Editors‿ ChoiceResponsibility‿which once meant the moral duty to help and support others‿has come to be equated with an obligation to be self-sufficient. This has guided recent reforms of the welfare state, making key entitlements conditional on good behavior. Drawing on political theory and moral philosophy, Yascha Mounk shows why this re-imagining of personal responsibility is pernicious‿and suggests how ...

From India to Turkey, from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. Two core components of liberal democracy¿individual rights and the popular will¿are at war, putting democracy itself at risk. In plain language, Yascha Mounk describes how we got here, where we need to go, and why there is little time left to waste.

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Negli ultimi anni sembra che la politica abbia subito un'inquietante accelerazione. Nei paesi in cui l'adesione di tutti i cittadini al sistema di valori della democrazia era considerata un'ovvietà, il consenso per i partiti di estrema destra e per i populismi aumenta a ogni tornata elettorale. Per di più, la degenerazione del discorso politico è sopravvissuta alla fine della crisi economica. In Europa e negli Stati Uniti, infatti, sono chiari...

From India to Turkey, from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. Two core components of liberal democracy¿individual rights and the popular will¿are at war, putting democracy itself at risk. In plain language, Yascha Mounk describes how we got here, where we need to go, and why there is little time left to waste.

A moving and unsettling exploration of a young man's formative years in a country still struggling with its pastAs a Jew in postwar Germany, Yascha Mounk felt like a foreigner in his own country. When he mentioned that he is Jewish, some made anti-Semitic jokes or talked about the superiority of the Aryan race. Others, sincerely hoping to atone for the country's past, fawned over him with a forced friendliness he found just as alienating. Vivi...