Archiv des Autors: Michael Wehle

Inconvenient Sequel, 2017 „The next generation, looking back at us“. The framing is consistently that of „citizens in a democracy“ asked to take joint responsibility to prevent hypothetical (though likely) catastrophe occuring in some distant future. What was I thinking … Weiterlesen →

From the 2017 An Inconvenient Sequel. In 2023 one wonders how Al Gore feels the „fixing the democracy crisis“ endeavor is going. 🤔

Justus Bender, : Zuerst die gute Nachricht: Das Interesse der Deutschen an Politik ist ungebrochen. Es steigt sogar. Laut Statistischem Bundesamt sind heute rund 40 Prozent der Deutschen an Politik interessiert. Das ist viel mehr als früher, 1980 galt das … Weiterlesen →

The historians‘ „eventful“ conception of temporality certainly posits that different historical times have, effectively, different rates of change—that history may be „accelerated“ by events. But it also posits that events transform or reconfigure social relations. The consequence is that they … Weiterlesen →

[H]istory and the social sciences crystalized out of a single field of discourse. It was only between the 1880s and World War I that sociology, history, political science, anthropology, geography, and economics emerged as the distinct and professionalized academic disciplines … Weiterlesen →