{"id":4082,"date":"2018-12-05T10:14:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T10:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/veranstaltung\/die-liberale-illusion"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:04:23","slug":"the-liberal-illusion","status":"publish","type":"kreisky_event","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/veranstaltung\/die-liberale-illusion","title":{"rendered":"THE LIBERAL ILLUSION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nils Heisterhagen<\/strong> is a self-defined \u201eleft-wing realist\u201c and author. Until October 2018, he was a policy advisor for the SPD parliamentary group in Rhineland-Palatinate. He studied political science and economics at the Universities of G\u00f6ttingen and Hanover and completed his doctorate in philosophy at Humboldt University in Berlin with a thesis on \"existential republicanism\". He has worked as an intern at WirtschaftsWoche and the political magazine Cicero. He conducts research in the field of political philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>Moderation <strong>Robert Misik<\/strong>, Author and journalist<\/p>\n<p>Whether Austria, Germany or France. Social democracy is in crisis across Europe. At the same time, right-wing populists are succeeding as new labour parties with formerly left-wing rhetoric. They promise jobs, security and want to curb globalised capitalism.<br \/>How could this happen?<br \/>For Nils Heisterhagen, former SPD spokesperson in Rhineland-Palatinate, the Social Democrats are under a \u201eliberal illusion\u201c. He calls for a \u201eleft-wing realism\u201c that ends the ingratiation with neoliberalism on the one hand, but also speaks plainly on the issue of migration.<\/p>\n<p>Nils Heisterhagen<br \/>The liberal illusion: Why we need left-wing realism<br \/>Dietz Verlag 2018, 22.00 euros, ISBN 978-3-8012-0531-7<\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nils Heisterhagen ist laut Eigendefinition &bdquo;linker Realist&ldquo; und Autor. Bis Oktober 2018 war er Grundsatzreferent der SPD-Fraktion in Rheinland-Pfalz. Er hat an den Universit&auml;ten G&ouml;ttingen und Hannover Politikwissenschaft und Volkswirtschaftslehre studiert und an der Humboldt Universit&auml;t zu Berlin in Philosophie mit einer Arbeit &uuml;ber einen \"Existenziellen Republikanismus\" promoviert. er hospitierte bei der WirtschaftsWoche und dem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4083,"template":"","format":[29],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"schwerpunkt":[],"class_list":["post-4082","kreisky_event","type-kreisky_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","format-podiumsdiskussion"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DIE LIBERALE ILLUSION - Kreisky Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/event\/the-liberal-illusion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DIE LIBERALE ILLUSION - Kreisky Forum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nils Heisterhagen ist laut Eigendefinition &bdquo;linker Realist&ldquo; und Autor. 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