Trump, AFD und der Angriff auf Demokratie
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Trump, AFD und der Angriff auf Demokratie
How emotions steer politics – and what helps counteract them? Our fellow Fritz Breithaupt will speak at a public event at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg.
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How emotions steer politics - and what helps counteract them.
Donald Trump is back - and with him the sound of populism: anger, victim roles, simple images of the enemy. The AfD is also successful with its narratives in Germany. How do these narratives work? What can the centrist parties do to counter them? And how are they changing our political culture?
Join the conversation with cognitive scientist Fritz Breithaupt, author Diana Kinnert, and editor Martina Kix.
Speaker
In his highly acclaimed SPIEGEL guest article (‘Im Rausch der rechten Narrative’), cognitive scientist Prof. Dr Fritz Breithaupt (THE NEW INSTITUTE / Indiana University) analyses how right-wing movements specifically instrumentalise emotions - and why empathy can become a weapon in the political arena. It is about more than language: about collective psychological patterns, affect politics, the construction of enemy images - and the attack on democracy.
The author Diana Kinnert is a CDU politician, entrepreneur, consultant and publicist. She stands for a modern conservatism that takes the feelings of the population seriously - and addresses social problems such as loneliness. Kinnert knows the social contexts in which people become receptive to Trump or the AfD - as well as the emotional pressure that politicians are often under.
Martina Kix, editor at SPIEGEL in the ‘Opinion & Debate’ section, provided editorial support for the article. She discusses the role of emotions in politics with Breithaupt and Kinnert - and what it takes to strengthen democratic counter-narratives.
Attendance
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