Time of Losses

We live in a time of losses — huge and barely noticeable, obvious and ambiguous, personal and collective. In conditions where there is almost no possibility of ignoring the instability of the world, we learn to cope with the death of loved ones and the unceasing flow of news about the deaths of strangers. German writer and journalist Daniel Schreiber rereads the works of philosophers (from Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers to Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler) and writers (from Joan Didion to Joseph Brodsky) in search of ways to deal with losses in a world that still seems familiar, but is already as if replaced by a more sinister version. And he finds hope in a new — cautious, less reassuring and more realistic than before, — "confidence of lowered expectations" regarding an uncertain future.