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:
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&sca_esv=595731386&q=Samuel+P+Jackson+N+Wort+Interview+Hamilton:&tbm=vid&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiIhsjXs8SDAxXERvEDHchvCHcQ0pQJegQIDRAB&biw=1920&bih=947&dpr=1#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:5b38504f,vid:cOlNHXQCT_4,st:0

In the first half of this double episode of Sustainability Matters, we ask: what are the roles of truth, objectivity, and reason in society? How should we understand Enlightenment in relation to human rights, racism, slavery, and Eurocentrism? And what do we risk losing when universal standards are replaced by competing narratives?

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:
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&sca_esv=595731386&q=Samuel+P+Jackson+N+Wort+Interview+Hamilton:&tbm=vid&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiIhsjXs8SDAxXERvEDHchvCHcQ0pQJegQIDRAB&biw=1920&bih=947&dpr=1#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:5b38504f,vid:cOlNHXQCT_4,st:0

On this episode of Sustainability Matters, we explore how history textbooks shape collective memory in Lebanon. How are national narratives constructed? Are these textbooks as divided as the country's politics, or do they tell a more unified story? And what happens when different communities hold competing versions of the past?

All this and more with Dr. Bouchra Saab, author of History Education in Lebanon and the Borders of the Nation, which is Volume 56 in the series “Studies on Modern Orient” published by De Gruyter Brill.

Host: Ramzi Nasir

Guest: Dr. Bouchra Saab