»Wie geht Streiten heute?« Svenja Flaßpöhler und Jürgen Kippenhan streiten - Lesung und Gespräch

In the organizer's words:

"How does arguing work today?"

Svenja Flaßpöhler and Jürgen Kippenhan argue
Reading and discussion

"Arguing means allowing irreconcilability." Svenja Flaßpöhler is known as a feisty person, as someone who likes to take an offensive stance. But she has a completely different experience: that of a child of separation who grew up with the fear of arguments and escalation. In her new book, she makes a personal, philosophical and pointed appeal for more real arguments and shows that thinking about arguing means, above all, freeing yourself from illusions. An argument is not a discourse free of domination, it is about power: the abyss of destruction is always present as a possibility. At the same time, it is precisely the irreconcilability of conflict that drives us forward and brings about change.

So why do we argue? And how can conflict succeed? The author and philosopher Jürgen Kippenhan argue about this and plead for more vitality, courage and the Eros of struggle.

SVENJA FLASSPÖHLER holds a doctorate in philosophy and is editor-in-chief of Philosophie Magazin as well as founder and co-director of the new Berlin philosophy festival Philo.live! Her most recent publications include "Sensibel. Über moderne Empfindlichkeit und die Grenzen des Zumutbaren" and "Die potente Frau. For a new femininity." For "My will be done. Dying in times of assisted suicide", she was awarded the Arthur Koestler Prize. Svenja Flaßpöhler lives with her family in Berlin.

With the kind support and a book table of the Backhaus bookshop.