CAROLIN EMCKE

What does radical humanism mean? Carolin Emcke has been traveling to Israel-Palestine for over 20 years. She was there recently to talk to people from Bee'ri or Jenin, from Tel Aviv or Ramallah — and to illuminate the blind spots of empathy in local discourse.

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Are there limits to empathizing with others? What does the memory of history oblige us to do? Are there limits to the duty to speak in the name of human rights? Or should nothing prevent us from seeing others as part of the universal we? Carolin Emcke asked herself these questions before October 7 and Gaza. But since then, they have become even more urgent. It is ultimately about the existential question: What does a person count? Carolin Emcke, born in 1967, studied philosophy in London, Frankfurt/Main and Harvard. She wrote her doctorate on the concept of “collective identities.” From 1998 to 2013, Carolin Emcke traveled to crisis regions worldwide and reported on them. In 2003/2004 she was a visiting lecturer in political theory at Yale University. She is a freelance journalist and is repeatedly involved in artistic projects and interventions, including the theme days “Tell War” at the House of World Cultures. For over ten years, Carolin Emcke has been organizing and moderating the monthly discussion series “Streiraum” at Schaubühne Berlin. She has received several awards for her work. In 2016, she received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

” What does a person count? “published on 23.9.2026 by S. Fischer Verlag

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