Ethik und Gesellschaft

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The ongoing digitization includes a process of social and political transformation which effects the relation of what is private and what is considered public. The corona-pandemic accelerated this transformation. This changed roles and spaces, it created new insecurities and expectations, concerning spaces of residential living for instance: The distinction between an individual's role as parent and as employee became more fluid and vague. This points to the cracks in the relation between the private and the public. The pandemic has revealed the limits and ambivalences in the constructions of private and public spheres that have always existed.

This issue focusses on two connected questions: How do spaces and roles change in the course of the transformations of the Corona pandemic? How does this transformation effect the relation between private and public? How are the two processes of transformation interconnected, the transformation of roles and spaces on the one hand and the transformation of the distinction of private and public on the other hand?

Editors: Sarah Jäger, Frederike van Oorschot and Florian Höhne.

The review section presents 18 books. The first focus is on books on the life, work and philosophy of religion of Immanuel Kant, published on the 300th anniversary of the philosopher's birth. Another focus is on books on the human rights ethos, especially in the context of migration ethics and moral universalism. Three books on the topics of right-wing populism, liberal democracy and political criticism of liberalism are also reviewed. Also reviewed are books on sexual ethics, the living and working conditions of live-ins in the care sector, contemporary liberation education in the tradition of Paulo Freire, the 'unholy' relationship between church and state, clandestine resistance pastoral work during the Second World War, the history and present of the papacy and the history of freedom of the pirates during the Enlightenment.

Editors: Tim Eckes und Hermann-Josef Große Kracht