"Gesellschaft der Angst" mit Heinz Bude und Jutta Allmendinger

In conversation: Jutta Allmendinger, President of the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) Heinz Bude, sociologist, Professor of Macrosociology at the University of Kassel Moderated by: Ralf Fücks, Executive Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation With the concept of fear, Heinz Bude captures a society of unsettling uncertainty, suppressed anger, and quiet bitterness. It is less about the fear of a "great other" than about the fear of one's own seemingly endless possibilities. Fear is the expression of a societal condition with shifting ground. Since the publication of his book "Society of Fear," Heinz Bude has become a specialist on the topic. In discussion with Jutta Allmendinger, the evening will attempt to answer the question of how political the fear Bude speaks of is and whether there are ways out—for the individual and for society. In the series "Berliner Disput" (Berlin Debate), the Heinrich Böll Foundation invites two renowned personalities from science, politics or art to engage in a social controversy.