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“legitimate reasons to be very pessimistic about our future but I also think that hope is crucial and fundamental for any change so I wouldn't call it optimistic but definitely hopeful and I do think though that hope is not only Something we sometimes acquire, but I think it's fundamental and absolutely necessary hope is what allows us to pursue things and live. I'm also interested in that shift from the German title to the English title. I mean, speaking feels much more active and we can sort of see the agent in a way that we can't in the original German. Does that feel like an important sort of shift as well? I thought it would, but then I realized.”
2022-07-04 · Intelligence Squared · On Speaking and Being: The Power of Words, with Kübra Gümüsay · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I wanted to hit something hard enough that would be worthwhile working on, and to me that was language. So the original title in German was Sprach on Sein, language and being. And to me, that was what this book had to be called because language does shape the way we think and perceive the world, and sometimes it can rob us of our very existence and sometimes allow us to flourish and exist and explore this world. Thanks. I mean, I'm thinking that the decision to focus on speaking rather than silence feels like quite an optimistic decision. And overall, and particularly coming to the end of the book and reading the acknowledgement, it feels like quite an optimistic book in difficult political circumstances. Do you think that's fair? I'm not sure about optimism, but it's definitely hopeful book. So I know that there are very valid and”
2022-07-04 · Intelligence Squared · On Speaking and Being: The Power of Words, with Kübra Gümüsay · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of those debates. And after years and years of these very intense political debates where I did not see any constructive, productive outcome, where I was quite disillusioned by realizing that it was a spectacle rather than an actual sincere interest in trying to solve the topics we were discussing, I then wanted to understand and find out what is it that leads us to having these very destructive debates? And then I decided to dig as deep as possible.”
2022-07-04 · Intelligence Squared · On Speaking and Being: The Power of Words, with Kübra Gümüsay · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was a continuation of silencing and silence and so I wanted to write about that but then I thought it was quite cynical to write about silence when in fact I could use this as an opportunity to speak. So after almost ten, fifteen years in the public discourse and the political discourse where I had been engaging in the very timely topics of our times but having entered this from a very different perspective than some of the other people who had been joining these debates, I had been joining these debates from the perspective of those who saw the real life impact of those words. So I entered not out of curiosity but out of the desire to create a discourse that would allow for us to exist. So to me there was a lot more at stake than to some of the other participants.”
2022-07-04 · Intelligence Squared · On Speaking and Being: The Power of Words, with Kübra Gümüsay · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Literature She Literary studies and critical Here's Danie Welcome to Intelligence Squared, Cooper. Thank you for having me, Danielle. So, the title of your book Speaking in Being brings to mind a whole history of impenetrable philosophical tomes. But you're doing something quite different here. You're writing really accessibly and urgently about very contemporary political questions. I wonder if you could tell us a little bit about how you came to write the book and how you settled on a title. Initially, I wanted to write about silence, the continuation of silence, how the first generation of immigrants were considered to be silent, quote-unquote, because they did not speak the language, how the second generation spoke the language but was not close enough to microphones, hence again was considered to be silent, and then the third generation spoke the language, had access to microphones but was only allowed to speak on certain topics in certain roles.”
2022-07-04 · Intelligence Squared · On Speaking and Being: The Power of Words, with Kübra Gümüsay · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT