Freiheit und Ressentiment. Chancen und Risiken für den Zusammenhalt in der Stadtgesellschaft

In the organizer's words:

Freedom and resentment.

Opportunities and risks for cohesion in urban society

"City air makes you free." This medieval legal principle, which gave serfs in the city freedom from their landlords, has become a catchphrase for cosmopolitan and liberal attitudes that are promoted by urban life as a whole. But doesn't city air also make you lonely? Urban anonymity, which on the one hand reduces the burden of social control, on the other hand increases the risks of isolation and disconnection. The wave of populism and resentment that has also gripped urban societies today is linked not least to the loss of exchange and civic dialog. All too often, the desire for encounters and cohesion then breaks out in a negative form, including through the construction of enemy images that are intended to create a new and exclusive "we".

Speaker: Reinhard Olschanski (Stuttgart/Rome)

Price information:

The event is free of charge, donations are welcome