{"product_id":"tomorrow-is-here-speeches-hardback-9781509550562","title":"Tomorrow is Here; Speeches (Hardback) 9781509550562","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTomorrow is Here\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSpeeches\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNavid Kermani (Author), Tony Crawford (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509550562, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 September 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e310 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.3 x 14.7 x 2.8 cm, 0.522 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Navid Kermani is a brilliant scholar and public intellectual, a perfect diasporic figure in that he is both fully German and deeply engaged with the Iranian Muslim culture that he inhabits with full critical commitment. These are speeches that will change the way that people see the world, especially the world of Iran.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Boyarin, author of \u003ci\u003eThe No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Navid Kermani’s essays and speeches have established themselves as some of the most brilliant and wide-ranging statements of any German public intellectual. Whether reflecting on politics and the state or mourning his late father, Kermani knows how to be both a public figure and a moving private individual. To read him is to be in touch with both the nerve-ends of modern Europe and its manifold links to the Orient.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeremy Adler, \u003ci\u003eKing’s College London\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Navid Kermani has established himself as one of Germany’s foremost public intellectuals… He has the preacher’s skill of connecting the personal and the general, and of using each occasion as an opportunity to say what he feels needs to be said at that moment without its seeming forced or arbitrary.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNavid Kermani is not only one of Germany’s most distinguished writers and public intellectuals, he is also an outstanding public speaker who mesmerizes audiences with his well-crafted sentences and turns of phrase. Whether he is speaking about the plight of refugees or delivering a eulogy at his father’s graveside, Kermani finds words that surprise his listeners, enlighten them, provoke them, disturb them or move them to tears.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs a German of Iranian descent whose parents settled in Germany, Kermani is particularly sensitive to the issues raised by migration and the perceived tensions between Islam and the West. His speeches are a powerful demonstration of how much we stand to gain by adhering to the values of openness, tolerance and mutual respect for the beliefs and practices of those from other cultures who live among us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eEditorial Note\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Preface    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e On the Presentation of the Special Award of the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize to the Iranian Writers’ Association\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On the Death of the Unborn Sofía \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On the 65th Anniversary of the Promulgation of the German Constitution\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e On Receiving the Joseph Breitbach Prize\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e At the Public Commemoration of the Victims of the Paris Attacks\u003cbr\u003e     \u003cbr\u003e On Receiving the Peace Prize of the German Publishers’ Association    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eulogy for Rupert Neudeck\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e Eulogy for Jaki Liebezeit  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On the Twentieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Department of Jewish History and Culture    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On Receiving the State Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Eulogy for Djavad Kermani  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eulogy for Karl Schlamminger     \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On the Seventieth Birthday of FC Cologne \u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e In Memory of Egon Ammann   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dinner Speech at the Investment Conference of Flossbach von Storch AG    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Keynote Address to the Congress of the International Association for Analytical Psychology\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Statement before the Opening Reading of the Harbour Front Literature Festival  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On Receiving the Hölderlin Prize of the City of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On a Concert by the WDR Symphony Orchestra in the Broadcast Series ‘Music in Dialogue’ \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: On My Bookseller, Ömer Özerturgut      \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature:%20history%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDS%5D%22\"\u003eDS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441811091736,"sku":"9781509550562","price":43.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509550562.jpg?v=1785026627","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/tomorrow-is-here-speeches-hardback-9781509550562","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}