OLIVIER ROY - THE CRISIS OF CULTURE

OLIVIER ROY in conversation with IVAN KRASTEV
SUNDAY, 29.09.2024 / 11h30
AKADEMIE DER BILDENDEN KÜNSTE WIEN, AULA
In his recent book, the French political scientist and major authority on secularism and political Islam, OLIVIER ROY, investigates the effects of globalization on the erosion of Western culture. Identity politics, for him, marks the end of culture, understood as the complex yet understandable codes that we breathe in while growing up in a community. He does not criticize identity politics for betraying universalism but for trading complexity for fluidity, for replacing existing compound cultural identities with “box identities.” In conversation with IWM Permanent Fellow IVAN KRASTEV, Olivier Roy explains why he believes that deculturation inevitably ends with dehumanization.
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Part of the Vienna Humanities Festival 2024.
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