"Navid Kermani is a brilliant scholar and public intellectual, a perfect diasporic figure in that he is both fully German and deeply engaged with the Iranian Muslim culture that he inhabits with full critical commitment. These are speeches that will change the way that people see the world, especially the world of Iran."
Daniel Boyarin, author of The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto

"Navid Kermani’s essays and speeches have established themselves as some of the most brilliant and wide-ranging statements of any German public intellectual. Whether reflecting on politics and the state or mourning his late father, Kermani knows how to be both a public figure and a moving private individual. To read him is to be in touch with both the nerve-ends of modern Europe and its manifold links to the Orient."
Jeremy Adler, King’s College London

"Navid Kermani has established himself as one of Germany’s foremost public intellectuals… He has the preacher’s skill of connecting the personal and the general, and of using each occasion as an opportunity to say what he feels needs to be said at that moment without its seeming forced or arbitrary."
Times Literary Supplement

Navid Kermani is not only one of Germany’s most distinguished writers and public intellectuals, he is also an outstanding public speaker who mesmerizes audiences with his well-crafted sentences and turns of phrase. Whether he is speaking about the plight of refugees or delivering a eulogy at his father’s graveside, Kermani finds words that surprise his listeners, enlighten them, provoke them, disturb them or move them to tears. As a German of Iranian descent whose parents settled in Germany, Kermani is particularly sensitive to the issues raised by migration and the perceived tensions between Islam and the West. His speeches are a powerful demonstration of how much we stand to gain by adhering to the values of openness, tolerance and mutual respect for the beliefs and practices of those from other cultures who live among us.
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Editorial Note Preface    On the Presentation of the Special Award of the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize to the Iranian Writers’ Association On the Death of the Unborn Sofía On the 65th Anniversary of the Promulgation of the German Constitution    On Receiving the Joseph Breitbach Prize At the Public Commemoration of the Victims of the Paris Attacks     On Receiving the Peace Prize of the German Publishers’ Association    Eulogy for Rupert Neudeck    Eulogy for Jaki Liebezeit  On the Twentieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Department of Jewish History and Culture    On Receiving the State Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia Eulogy for Djavad Kermani  Eulogy for Karl Schlamminger     On the Seventieth Birthday of FC Cologne     In Memory of Egon Ammann   Dinner Speech at the Investment Conference of Flossbach von Storch AG    Keynote Address to the Congress of the International Association for Analytical Psychology  Statement before the Opening Reading of the Harbour Front Literature Festival  On Receiving the Hölderlin Prize of the City of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe  On a Concert by the WDR Symphony Orchestra in the Broadcast Series ‘Music in Dialogue’    Epilogue: On My Bookseller, Ömer Özerturgut      Notes
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781509550579
Publisert
2022-09-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Polity Press
Vekt
363 gr
Høyde
208 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
310

Forfatter
Oversetter

Om bidragsyterne

Navid Kermani is a writer and scholar who lives in Cologne, Germany. He has received numerous accolades for his literary and academic work, including the 2015 Peace Prize of the German Publishers’ Association, Germany’s most prestigious cultural award.