The philosopher knows what it means when certainties disappear. As a teenager in Albania, she experienced the end of communism and the collapse of state structures. Her literary debut, “Free“, became a bestseller, and her new book, “Indignity“ has just been published. As a professor of political theory at the London School of Economics, Lea Ypi thinks more broadly and fundamentally than others about the challenges of our time. She laments the inequality created by neoliberalism and what that means for our societies. She wants to see a new political project that does not rely on the strength of individual states, but on cooperation and equal rights for all.

At FREIHEIT DELUXE Jagoda Marinić and Lea Ypi discuss why people doubt democracy, what appeal an EU weakened by crises still has, why borders only apply to certain people and why fear is an important factor in writing literature.

Here you will hear...

what the true meaning of freedom is (4:50)

why many East Germans do not believe in democracy (10:48)

why the idea of the nation state is a myth (23:37)

that the EU needs a new political project (41:34)

what distinguishes the Berlin Wall from the border between Mexico and the US (48:35)

that the narrative of the criminal migrant obscures the real problems (56:46)

why writing literature is so difficult and why she does it anyway (1:04:27)

FREEDOM DELUXE with Jagoda Marinić is a Hessischer Rundfunk production in cooperation with the German Publishers and Booksellers Association.

Editorial team: Andrea Geißler, Juliane Orth, and Christoph Scheffer.

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