With God on Our Side/03: Getting Confucius Right
Date: Thursday, May 15th
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Goethe-Institut (1014 Fifth Ave. at 83rd St.)
Cost: Free
In the third installment of With God on Our Side The Goethe-Institut New York "brings together London-based Asia expert, Ian Buruma, and Die Zeit journalist, Thomas E. Schmidt, to review the concept of 'Asian-style democracy.' Drawing on both philosophical analysis and empirical knowledge Buruma and Schmidt will discuss the question whether Confucian values and principles are compatible with the development of democracy. Ian Buruma, the author of Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies (Penguin Press), is Professor of Human Rights, Democracy and New Media at Bard College, New York, and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Thomas E. Schmidt, formerly literary editor of Frankfurter Rundschau and cultural editor of Die Welt, is now cultural correspondent of Die ZEIT in Berlin."
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