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Kantian and Postkantian Political Philosophy / Lecture Series & Specialist Course

Lecture Series & Doctoral School at Ghent University (website)

 

The need of critical revisiting the legacy of 18th and 19th German Philosophy, one of the most fruitful periods in German Philosophy, lies not only in the fact that the central problems of contemporary political philosophy are implicitly or explicitly related to the legacy of the philosophices of Kant, Fichte and Hegel, but first and foremost in the reductionist and one-sided dominant interpretations of this philosophies, according to which the political philosophies of Kant, Fichte and Hegel are nothing but representatives of Eurocentrism, racism, totalitarism and anti-democratic visions of social life. An approach to these philosophies, free from contemporary prejudices or preconceptions, will contribute to a deconstruction of the mentioned current interpretations.

 

The programme presents two kinds of activities: workshops and lectures followed by discussion. The workshops will be conducted by members of the Centre for Critical Philosophy (dir. Prof. Dr. G. Van De Vijver). They lead a workshop on a subject related to the lecture of one of the invited specialists that takes place later that evening. The workshop meetings serve thus as an introduction and preparation of the PhD students for the specialists’ lecture. In doing so, we are convinced of promoting free, productive, critical and high-level discussions with the specialists. The lectures will be given by five internationally acknowledeged and celebrated scholars of the study on Kantian and Postkantian Political Philosophy.

 

Their respective works show that they share the same interest in developing innovative interpretations as well as in reconstructing, historically and systematically, the constellation of German Political Philosophy between 1770 and 1830. They have very different philosophical backgrounds, some come from the continental tradition, others from analytical philosophy, some have been formed in the 20th Century German tradition in writing History of Philosophy, some follow rather a French perspective. To offer to the PhD Students this diversity of approaches is one of the principal aims of our proposal.

 

Programme

 

Thursday, 28 November 2013

16:00-18:00: Doctoral workshop with Prof. G. Van de Vijver (Ugent) and Dr. E. Acosta (Ugent/FWO)

19:30-21:30: Lecture by Prof. J.-Ch. Merle (Universität des Saarlandes): The right of necessity in Kant’s Doctrine of Right: A New Perspective

 

Thursday, 12 December 2013

  • 16:00-18:00: Doctoral workshop with Prof. G. Van de Vijver (UGent) and Dr. E. Acosta (UGent/FWO)
  • 19:30-21:30: Lecture by Prof. D. James (University of Warwick): Fichtes absolute state constraint and perfectibility

 

Thursday, 16 January 2014

  • 16:00-18:00: Doctoral workshop with Prof. G. Van de Vijver (UGent) and Dr. E. Acosta (UGent/FWO)
  • 19:30-21:30: Lecture by Prof. M. Maesschalck (Université Catholique de Louvain): New reading of Schelling’s late political philosophy. Agamben’s hypothesis on the theologico-political tradition.

 

Thursday, 23 January 2014

  • 16:00-18:00: Doctoral workshop with Prof. G. Van de Vijver (UGent) and Dr. E. Acosta (UGent/FWO)
  • 19:30-21:30: Lecture by Prof. P. Kleingeld (Universiteit Groningen): Kant’s second thoughts on colonialism

 

Thursday, 13 February 2014

  • 16:00-18:00: Doctoral workshop with Prof. G. Van de Vijver (UGent) and Dr. E. Acosta (UGent/FWO)
  • 19:30-21:30: Lecture by Prof. P. Cobben (Tilburg University): Hegels Phenomenology of Spirit: Explicating the Practical Dimension of the Copernican Turn

 

 

Registration

Participation in all evening lectures is free.

To participate in the Doctoral School (workshops and evening lectures), send an e-mail to doctoralschools@UGent.be (mentioning your name, first name, student number, Doctoral School, Department and the course title). Your registration will be confirmed by e-mail.

 

Participants can download the workshop texts here:

Text_first_workshop_kant – staatsleer

Organised by

Centre for Critical Philosophy


Invited speakers

Jean-Christoph Merle (Universität des Saarlandes)
David James (Warwick University)
Pauline Kleingeld (Universiteit Groningen)
Marc Maesschalck (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Paul Cobben (Tilburg University).


from 28 November 2013 to 13 February 2014

Location

Workshops & Evening Lectures:
Room 0.32A, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent

Contact

Emiliano Acosta

Reader

Cobben, P. (2009) The Nature of the Self. Berlin: De Gruyter. Selected chapters.

  • Cobben, P., Cruysberghs, P. et al. (2006) Hegel-Lexikon. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftlichen Buchgesellschaft. Selected pages.

  • Cobben, P. (2002) Das Gesetz der multikulturellen Gesellschaft.: Eine Aktualisierung von Hegels' Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts'. Würzburg: K & N.

  • Kleingeld, P. (2007) "Kant's second thoughts on race", in: PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY, Vol. 57, Is. 229 229, pp. 573-59.

  • Kleingeld, P. (2003) "Kant's cosmopolitan patriotism", in: KANT-STUDIEN, Vol. 94, Is. 3, pp. 299-316.

  • Kleingeld, P. (1999) "Six varieties of cosmopolitanism in late eighteenth-century Germany”, in: JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS, Vol. 60, Is. 3, pp. 505-524.

  • James, D. (2011) Fichte’s Social and Political Philosophy: Property and Virtue . Cambridge: University Press. Selected chapters.

  • James, D. (2010) "Fichte's Theory of Property", in: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL THEORY, Vol. 9, Is. 2, pp. 202-217.

  • James, D. (2008) "Fichte's Jacobinism", in: HISTORY OF EUROPEAN IDEAS, Vol. 34, Is. 1, pp. 104-115.

  • Maesschalck, M. (1993) Evénement et destinée chez Schelling. Une hypothèse sur la portée ontologique de la dernière philosophie.”, in: REVUE PHILOSOPHIQUE DE LOUVAIN, Vol. 91, Is. 2, pp. 185-206

  • Maesschalck. M. & Lenoble, J. (2010) “Democracy, Law and Governance. Studies in modern law and policy”, London: Ashgate Publishing. Selected chapters.

  • Merle, J. Ch. (2009) German Idealism and the Concept of Punishment. Cambridge: University Press. Selected chapters.

  • Merle, J. Ch. (2000) "A Kantian Critique of Kant's Theory of Punishment", in: LAW AND PHILOSOPHY, Vol. 19, Is. 2, pp. 311-338.