It is about reinterpreting them! How can one grasp reality when its very terms are no longer understood? The peculiar thing about large concepts like "democracy," "work," "religion," "culture," or "Europe" is that they are subjected to a constant banalization: they have become mere words that everyone uses, yet they mean nothing anymore. Robert Menasse, on the other hand, undertakes a permanent revolution of terms and shows: the world is upside down when we set the terms back on their feet. The terms are right - we may not know it, but we use them...