Classicism feat. Francis Seeck

Publish Date:04 April 2022

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Senior Fellow Francis Seeck is the guest of Episode 17 of “Under other circumstances,” a German podcast by Neues Deutschland.

In this episode, host Felicia Ewert talks to Francis about classicism as well as their new book titled “Access denied: No chance in class society: how classicism promotes social inequality.”

Listen to the episode (in German) by clicking on the picture.

As discussed in the podcast episode, classicism is the “discrimination and oppression of people on the basis of their suspected or actual social and economic status.”

To learn more about the economic injustices in society, listen to the Under other circumstances episode. For more information about the new book by Francis, click here.

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