Lichter Agora: Hyper, Hyper II
The Truth Is Out There – Connections and Disconnections between Truth and Reality
Vereinfachende Welterklärungen stehen nicht erst seit Pegida, AfD und Donald Trump hoch im Kurs. Die Frankfurter Gesellschaftswissenschaftler Dr. Endre Dányi und Sebastian Schindler (Exzellenzcluster „Normative Orders“) analysieren Verschwörungstheorien und ihre Anziehungskraft auf Individuen und Gesellschaft (in englischer Sprache):
Does everything connect? Conspiracy theories suggest so, but so do many social scientific approaches. Sociologist Dr. Endre Dányi suggests the main challenge is whether we can distinguish between different kinds of connections. Why do we tend to perceive reality as disconnected from truth? Taking inspiration from Hannah Arendt, political scientist Sebastian Schindler argues that we should not accept that reality is fake.
Fake World meets True Scientists: In der LICHTER AGORA diskutieren junge Philosophen und Wissenschaftler des Exzellenzclusters „Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen“ der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main über Wahrheit und ihre Bedeutung für Politik und Zeitgeschichte. Ausgangspunkt der drei Sessions ist die BBC-Dokumentation HyperNormalisation (Adam Curtis, 2016). Ausgewählte Filmausschnitte liefern Impulse für das offene Gesprächsforum. Das Setting des interdisziplinären Austauschs lädt das Publikum ein, gleichberechtigt mit den Gästen der AGORA zu debattieren.
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Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt International und Exzellenzcluster „Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen“
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