Antje Wienke (M.A., PhD Stud.)                     (Kiel University)

Michel Houellebecq’s Novel Submission against the Backdrop of Social Threats and Public Education

The French author Michel Houellebecq presents in his novel Submission (2015) a socially critical vision of the future in which France adopts a moderate Islam as defining culture and identity. The novel has caused heated debates. This presentation can be considered as the point of departure for a critical scrutiny of the social threats and its effects of public education as presented in the novel.