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In Extraordinary Times

Gustav Seibt

Gustav Seibt writes about the political realities of the present day Refugees, Islam and Islamism, the centrifugal forces of the EU and our precarious relationship with Russia, as well as issues surrounding our political culture and how we treat each other: all of these are subjects explored by Gustav Seibt, who has been broadening readers’ horizons for many years in his excellent contributions to the Süddeutsche Zeitung. In these essays, he puts the particularities of the present day into their wider context and adds a historical dimension. When we read his lucid texts we escape the temporal claustrophobia of contemporaneity, at least for the time that we are reading, and experience the liberating feeling of having better understood the ‘situation’. This book brings together Seibt’s best and most powerful texts in a survey of the present day.

Gustav Seibt is one of the ‘wordsmiths’ of German journalism. A historian and journalist who has won many awards for his work, Seibt is known for his unswerving humanist liberal attitudes, his wide-ranging historical knowledge and, above all, his unfailingly well-thought-out arguments. Even in the ‘blindness of the moment’ in which we are all trapped, he always manages to go beyond the politics of the day and get to the heart of a situation, giving us a better understanding of what is currently happening or what is at stake through historical observations or comparisons. This book offers readers the chance to learn about the key issues of our era in exquisite prose.

• ‘Marvelous. This book will take me right through to the next historical turning point.’ - Harald Schmidt

• One of Germany’s most renowned journalists writes about the key questions of our era

• A brilliant tour d’horizon of our political age

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