Verlies. Een kernprobleem van de moderniteit
- Date
- 4 December 2025
- Time
- 17:00
- Location
- SPUI25
Reckwitz analyzes loss as a fundamental problem of our time. The promise of progress has always been accompanied by loss: of security, community, and meaning. But experiences of loss conflict with the belief in progress that is essential to modernity. Now that the narrative of progress is losing its credibility and losses can no longer be made invisible, we are faced with one of the existential questions of the 21st century: can societies remain modern and at the same time deal productively with loss?
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