«Bleibefreiheit» ❘ Lesung und Gespräch mit Eva von Redecker

In the organizer's words:

Most of us value the freedom to travel, to move around without restriction, to meet people wherever we want, as a fundamental value. But how sustainable is such a spatially defined concept of freedom as we face times in which places to live are dwindling and climate crises or wars are making entire regions uninhabitable?

The philosopher Eva von Redecker does not think of freedom as freedom of movement, as is usually the case, but as temporal freedom - as a full and fulfilling life. Lead freedom unfolds in circular tides, it can only be created together, and it grows when we share it. Philosophically, lead freedom is an appeal not to flee from our own mortality. Politically, it requires the sustainable safeguarding of the best possible living conditions for all.

"Can we live on this planet without laboriously working towards its catastrophes in constant terror, can we stay here so that we remain free, that we can enjoy time in abundance, that we can look up into a sky where swallows dance?"
- from "Lead freedom" by Eva von Redecker

An event organized by Lokal Harmonie e.V. and the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung NRW