Festival of Ideas: Srećko Horvat

Srećko Horvat
Poetry from the Future: A Radical Manifesto for Europe
Mon 13 May 2019, 18:30-19:30
We The Curious
£8/ £6/ £4.50 + limited number of FREE tickets for under 25s

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Srećko Horvat, a leading European philosopher at the forefront of the European left and one of the founders of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, discusses his new book, a radical manifesto for hope in democracy, union and internationalism: Poetry from the Future.

Among the questions he asks are: What is democracy? Have our democratic societies turned into a form of totalitarianism? If so, how do they get away with it?

The past is forgotten, and the future is without hope. Dystopia has become a reality. Capitalism and historical revisionism are part of the fabric of this new world of normalised apocalyptic politics. Horvat argues our passivity is guaranteed if we believe there is no future.

Image credit: Oliver Abraham

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