What role can the humanities play in shaping our common future? What are the values that guide us in the 21st century? How can we unleash the potential the humanities offer in a time of multiple crises? This volume tackles some of these fundamental questions, acknowledging and developing the changing role of academic discourse in a turbulent world. This timely book argues that the humanities engender conceptual tools that are capable of reconciling theory and practice. In a bold move, we call for the humanities to reach beyond the confines of universities and engage in the most urgent debates facing humanity today - in a multidisciplinary, transformative, and constructive way. This is a blueprint for how societal change can be inclusive and equitable for the good of humans and non-humans alike.
Markus Gabriel, geboren 1980, studierte in Bonn, Heidelberg, Lissabon und New York. Seit 2009 hat er den Lehrstuhl für Erkenntnistheorie und Philosophie der Neuzeit an der Universität Bonn inne und ist dort Direktor des Internationalen Zentrums für Philosophie. Er ist Direktor des interdisziplinären Center for Science and Thought und regelmäßiger Gastprofessor an der Sorbonne (Paris 1) sowie der New School for Social Research in New York City.
