Journalist and philosopher Carolin Emcke is one of the leading voices in the European intellectual and cultural scenes. She is a columnist for the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and El País. She has been an editor and international reporter for Die Zeit and Der Spiegel, during which time she travelled to several conflict zones including Colombia, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, and wrote Echoes of Violence. Letters from a War Reporter (Princeton, 2007).
She studied Philosophy at the London School of Economics, Harvard, and the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt where her supervisor was Axel Honneth, and she has lectured in different academic centres, among them Yale University.
Her work denouncing violence, xenophobia and LGBT-phobia, and in favour of human rights has been recognised with such awards as Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2016 and, in 2008, the Theodor Wolff Prize of the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers. Among her books: Against hate and How We Desire.
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