Carolin Emcke: What Does a Person Count For?
What does radical humanism mean? Is empathy a finite resource? What is our obligation to remember the past? Where do we draw the lines of responsibility to speak in the name of human rights? Or should nothing prevent us from seeing others as part of a “universal humanity”? Carolin Emcke was already asking these questions long before the 7th of October, but now they are even more pressing. Her new book returns to the only question that truly matters: What Does a Person Count For?
For more than 20 years, Carolin Emcke has been traveling to Israel-Palestine. Most recently, she was there to talk to people from Be'eri and Jenin, from Tel Aviv and Ramallah, searching for the “universal we” in the local discourse.
Host: Yassin Musharbash
Contributors
Yassin Musharbash
Yassin Musharbash is an editor at newspaper Die Zeit in Berlin and… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
Carolin Emcke
Journalist Carolin Emcke studied philosophy in London and Frankfurt… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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17. October 2026
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