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Lecture by Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst (Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy and Director of the Research Center “Normative Orders” at Goethe University Frankfurt) on May 6, 2024 as part of the Goethe Lecture Offenbach. In current analyses of the crisis of democracy, the term democratic or anti-democratic regression is used in connection with the emergence of authoritarian populisms. In his lecture, Rainer Forst discusses the normative prerequisites that justify the use of this term, understood as a diagnosis of the 'rule of unreason'. This clarification makes it possible to avoid some errors in the discussion on this topic: the fixation on the status quo ante, the reduction of the concept of democracy and the incorrect classification of criticism of democracy. These considerations lead to our own assessment of the causes of anti-democratic regression and the paradoxes of our time. Organizer: Research Center "Normative Orders" in cooperation with the Office for Economic Development of the City of Offenbach and the Klingspor Museum We apologize for the blurriness of the image at the beginning of the recording! Further information at: https://www.normativeorders.net/event... #democracy #regression