Sprache und Sein

Kübra Gümüşay describes how language shapes our thinking and determines our politics. “An impressive book, both poetic and political.” Margarete Stokowski

This book is driven by a longing: for a language that does not reduce people to categories. For a way of speaking that allows them to exist in all their multifaceted richness. A longing for truly communal thinking in an increasingly polarised world. Kübra Gümüşay has long been an advocate for equality and discourse on an equal footing. In her first book, she explores the question of how language shapes our thinking and determines our politics. She shows how people become invisible as individuals 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 human beings? And how can we all – in an age of increasingly harsh, hate-fuelled discourse – communicate with one another differently?