Ferdinand von Schirach & Alexander Kluge, NEVERTHELESS

Luchterhand - Non-Fiction - Hardcover - May 2020 - 80 pages

The Corona virus has brought us to a turning point in history. Both the brilliant and the terrible are now possible.

Is the current shutdown of our society also a shutdown of our fundamental rights? Ferdinand von Schirach and Alexander Kluge examine the question of what the Corona pandemic means for our social order and our civil liberty.

"Two months ago, no one could have imagined that we would experience this state of emergency. Some people today claim that this is the time of the executive. But this is wrong. We live in democracies, we have a separation of powers. Parliament still has to decide, and that must not change. Our democracy does not yet seem to be under threat. But things can topple. Authoritarian structures can become entrenched, people get used to them. Erosions are slow demolitions, not sudden events." - Ferdinand von Schirach

• “"Nevertheless" is a stimulating guide to one's own efforts to understand the behaviour during an epidemic and to do justice to it both rationally and emotionally.” - Frankfurter Rundschau

• “One of the first constructive thought-provoking impulses of the Corona crisis in book form” - Wiener Zeitung

Rights sold to: Sweden (Lindelöws), Italy (Meltemi)