Sprache und Sein

Kübra Gümüşay describes how language shapes our thinking and determines our politics.

This book follows a longing: for a language that does not reduce people to categories. For a way of speaking that allows them to exist in their richness of facets. For truly communal thinking in a polarizing world. Kübra Gümüşay has long advocated for equality and discourse on equal terms. In her first book, she explores the question of how language shapes our thinking and determines our politics. She demonstrates how individuals become invisible when they are always seen as part of a group and are only allowed to express themselves as such. But how can people truly speak as individuals? And how can we all – in an era of increasingly harsh, hate-filled discourse – communicate differently with one another?.