Freedom Begins with You
Current Affairs, Non-Fiction
The outrageousness of saying ‘I’
Politically speaking, ‘I’ is not on-trend. Anyone who declares individual freedom to be some sort of ideal is quickly suspected of being a ruthless narcissist. But that’s not the case, argues young lawyer and journalist Anna Schneider. In conversation with great liberal thinkers, she raves about the unpopular concept of personal freedom. She denounces anti-liberal tendencies in contemporary political discourse and seeks to explain the sceptical attitudes towards freedom that she observes among Germans today. Her book is an invitation to celebrate the individual, an ode to the freedom of the subject, to the ‘me’ in the ‘us’. For without ‘I’, Schneider argues, there is no freedom, and without freedom there is no ‘I’.
- How valuable is individual freedom as an ideal? The most current topic of debate
- Intelligent definition of modern liberalism
- Controversial propositions
- On identity politics and on the political ambitions of Fridays for Future activists
Anna Schneider is a lawyer and reporter-in-chief for WELT. She writes the WELT newsletter 'Anna Schneider ist so frei' (‘Anna Schneider is so free’) and regularly argues for the liberal perspective both on TV and in print.
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The outrageousness of saying ‘I’
Politically speaking, ‘I’ is not on-trend. Anyone who declares individual freedom to be some sort of ideal is quickly suspected of being a ruthless narcissist. But that’s not the case, argues young lawyer and journalist Anna Schneider. In conversation with great liberal thinkers, she raves about the unpopular concept of personal freedom. She denounces anti-liberal tendencies in contemporary political discourse and seeks to explain the sceptical attitudes towards freedom that she observes among Germans today. Her book is an invitation to celebrate the individual, an ode to the freedom of the subject, to the ‘me’ in the ‘us’. For without ‘I’, Schneider argues, there is no freedom, and without freedom there is no ‘I’.
- How valuable is individual freedom as an ideal? The most current topic of debate
- Intelligent definition of modern liberalism
- Controversial propositions
- On identity politics and on the political ambitions of Fridays for Future activists