Coming to Terms with the Present

In times of crisis, social issues and diversity take a blow. For Max Czollek, state-supported concepts such as “dominant culture” or “integration” offer no answers to this problem whatsoever.

Since 2018 there has been much debate over Max Czollek’s polemical book, Desintegriert euch! (De-integrate Yourselves!) While it summed up the status quo of Germany’s self-image, Czollek’s new book lays out a model for living differently in the present by asking: how does society have to change so that everyone experiences solidarity in equal measure? What cherished beliefs do we all have to give up for this to happen? How can the joint defence of pluralistic democracy succeed in a fragmented world? Max Czollek goes to the heart of 2020 – and this polemical book is his pacemaker.