Conference „Philosophy and Social Science“
May 9 – 13, 2012
Venue: Villa Lanna, V sadech 1, Prague 6
Program
Wednesday, May 9
13:00 – 13:30 Introduction: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
13:30 – 15:00
Room A:Workshop on Violence and Revolution
María Pía Lara: Theorizing Violence
Marianne LeNabat : On Violence in Recent Uprisings: Political Paradoxes and FalseDilemmas
Omid Payrow Shabani: The Green Non-violent Ethos: The Roots of Non-Violence in the Iranian Democratic Movement
Room B:Critical Theory Today
Matthias Kettner: Communication, Discourse, and Power: Making the Best ofHabermas, Apel, and Foucault
Zhou Suiming: Studies on Habermas and TheirInfluences in China
Joohyung Kim: From Habermas to Luhmann, and Back
Room C:Labor, Growth, and Other Dogmas of Capitalism
John Holmwood: Sociology’s Moments: Knowledge Regimes and the Fate of SocialCriticism
Martin Kopecký: (Lifelong) Learning Policy between Welfare Substitution andReflexivity
Anna Marie Smith: Justice and School Finance: Is There a Radical Egalitarian FutureHidden Within Anderson‘s Imperative?
Break
15:15 –17:15
Room A:Protest: Philosophical, Political, and Cultural Perspectives
Michael Halberstam: Three Concepts of Corruption
Joaquin M. Valdivielso Navarro: The Indignant Movement in Spain: A Shift in Youth Radical Politics
Thomas P. Crocker: Speech, Authority, and Occupying the Public Sphere
Room B:Labor, Growth, and Other Dogmas of Capitalism
David Strecker: Can We Make Sense of the Distinction between Free and Unfree Labour? Contemporary Slavery and the Capitalist Market
Thomas Biebricher: Europe and the Political Philosophy of Neoliberalism
Arthur Grupillo: The Concept of Limit as a Limit-Concept: Perspectives in Critical Theory
Room C:The Challenges of Post-democracy
Dirk Jörke: The Populist Challenge of Democratic Theory
Łukasz Pawłowski: Not Enough Democrats? Carl Schmitt as a Theorist of Radical Democracy
Marcin Kilanowski: Towards Social Solidarity: From Philosophical Basis of Civil Society in Pragmatic Thought to Strengthening Democracy
Thursday, May 10
10:00 –11:30
Room A: Plenary
Andrew Arato: Post Sovereign Constitution Making
Break
11:45 – 13:15
Room A: Plenary
Nancy Fraser: Can Society Be Commodities All the Way Down?
Lunch Break
15:15 – 17:15
Room A:Workshop on the Will, Voice and Eyes of the People – Emancipation in a Time of Diffusion
Sofia Näsström, Alessandro Ferrara, Dario Castiglione
Marta Nunes da Costa: Critical Theory Revisited: What Can It Bring to Democracy Today?
Room B:The Challenges of Post-democracy
David Ingram: Reconciling Positivism and Realism: Habermas and Kelsen on Democracy, Peaceful Coexistence, and Human Rights
Georgia Warnke: Public Reasons and Private Interpretations
Antonino Palumbo: Epistemic Turn or Democratic U-Turn? On the Tension between Philosophical Reasoning and Political Action in Deliberative Democracy
Room C:Critical Theory Today
Johanna Meehan: Critical Theory and the Self: Rethinking Internalization and Autonomy
John McGuire: The Problem of Transformative Political Agency in Rawls and Fraser
Lenny Moss: Critical Theory, Human Agency and the Need for a New “Critical” Metaphysics
Break
17:30 – 19:30
Room A:Critical Theory Today
Simon Laumann Joergensen: Honneth on Democracy
Henning Hahn: Axel Honneth’s Critical Stance and the Requirements of Global Injustice
Asger Sørensen: Durkheim: The Goal of Education in a Democratic State Is Autonomy
Room B:Workshop on Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action
Max Pensky: Theory of Communicative Action and Reification
Bill Scheuerman: Law, Capitalism, and Social Criticism
Timo Jütten: Habermas and Markets
James Gordon Finlayson: More Problems with Normative Grounds: The Moral and the Political in Habermas’s Theory of Democracy
Room C:The Challenges of Post-democracy
Carlo Invernizzi Accetti: Relativism in Democracy: Response to a New Form of Political Theology
ArianneConty: Profane Illuminations: Democracy and Messianic Faith
Hugh Baxter: Habermas on Religion and Democracy
Ayelet Banai: People‘s Sovereignty under God’s Law? Democracy and Theocracy in Recent Constitutional Developments in Iraq and Egypt
Friday, May 11
10:00 – 11:30
Room A: Plenary
Charles Taylor: Beyond Toleration
Break
11:45 – 13:15
Room A: Multiple Modernities
Gerard Delanty: The New Politics of Europe in an Era of Global Social Change
David Rasmussen: The Emerging Domain of the Political
Gary Minda: Freedom and Democracy in a World Governed by Finance and Sovereign Debt: Involuntary Servitude by Other Means?
Room B:Protest: Philosophical, Political, and Cultural Perspectives
Lucie Cviklová: The Perspective of Race and Gender and its Relevance for Forms of Direct and Indirect Discrimination in East and Central European Countries
Regina Kreide: Democracy & Resistance
Juan Espindola: Collective Responsibility in the War on Drugs
Room C:The Challenges of Post-democracy
Ronan Kaczynski: A Sociological Perspective on Transnational Democracy and Non-Domination
Ondřej Lánský: Ethos of Liberation or Political Liberalism: a Foundation for Anti-Capitalist Movement?
Barbara Buckinx: Non-Domination through Citizenship
Lunch Break
15:15 – 17:15
Room A:Critical Theory Today
Pieter Duvenage: The Ethical and Political Significance of Practical Wisdom (phronēsis) in a Divided Society
Marek Hrubec: Authoritarian versus Critical Theory
Darrow Schecter: Systems Theory and Critical Theory: Toward an Unlikely Synthesis?
Robert Gianni: The Path of Critical Theory: A Dialectical Perspective
Room B: Labor, Growth, and Other Dogmas of Capitalism
Martin Brabec: Why to Introduce a Basic Income?
Cui Weihang: The Problem of Labor and Capital Critique in Chinese View
Jean-Philippe Deranty: Historicist Objections to the Centrality of Work
Room C:The Challenges of Post-democracy
Francielle Vieira Oliveira: The Democratic Legitimacy of Participation and Representation at the Public Sphere of Post-national States
Eva Erman: Political Legitimacy in the Real Normative World: The Priority of Morality and the Autonomy of the Political
Gulia Oskian: Democratic Legitimacy: Toward a Reflexive Foundation?
Ou Yangying: Good Governance：The Unity of Legitimacy and Rationality
Break
17:30 – 18:30
Room A:The Challenges of Post-democracy
Hubertus Buchstein: The Aleatory Theory of Democracy
Christiane Wilke: East of the Rule of Law: Legal Orientalism and the Invocation of the Rule of Law in Germany
Room B: Franz L. Neumann’s Behemoth at 70
David Kettler and Thomas Wheatland: “How Can We Tell It to the Children?” ADeliberation at the Institute of Social Research: January 1941
Regina Gramer: From the Peripheral to the Transnational
Room C:History of Political Ideas
Lisabeth During & Ross Poole: Rape and the Republic
Filipe Campello: The Power of Affects in Ethical Life: A Critical Proposal in Light of Hegel
Transfer to DOX: Centre of Contemporary Art
19:30 – 20:30
Panel in DOX: Centre of Contemporary Art
Johann P. Árnason: Culture and Civilization
Milan Kreuzzieger: Art as Critical Practice
Bert van den Brink: Landscape Photography and Critical Theory: Investigating the Places in Which We Live
20:30 Discussion and Common Dinner
Saturday, May 12
10:00 – 11:30
Room A: Plenary
Jean Cohen: Democracy, Constitutionalism and Religion
Break
11:45 – 13:15
Room A:Workshop on Degrowth-Society? Dynamics and Stability in (Post-) Modernity. A Jena Project
Hartmut Rosa: The Escalatory Logic of Modernity and the End of Dynamic Stability
Barbara Muraca: On the Preconditions of Degrowth in a Global Perspective
Dimitri Mader: On the Contours of Degrowth-Society: The Jena Project
Room B:The Challenges of Post-democracy
Emil Albert Sobottka and João Carlos Bassani: The Idea of Citizenship and Its Normative Core: On the Public Policies Conception
Eyal Chowers: The Collapse of the Two States Solution: The Search for a New Political Imagination
Øjvind Larsen: Comments on Axel Honneth’sRecht der Freiheit
Room C:Protest: Philosophical, Political, and Cultural Perspectives
Banu Bargu: Human Shields: Biopolitical Warfare, International Law, and Resistance
Peter Niesen: Bentham in Tripolis: Facilitating liberal revolution 1820s-2011
Jeanette Ehrmann: Re-reading Frantz Fanon’s “Toward the African Revolution” in Light of the ‘Arab Spring’
Lunch Break
15:15 – 17:15
Room A:Labor, Growth, and Other Dogmas of Capitalism
Simon Susen: ‘Open Marxism’ Against and Beyond the ‘Great Enclosure’? Reflections on How (Not) To Crack Capitalism
Zdeněk Vopat: The Way Capitalism Hijacked Human Rights and What to Do About It
Albena Azmanova: The New Spirit of Capitalism, the Soul of the Left, and the Scriptures of Critique
Room B:The Challenges of Post-democracy
Robert Fine: Emancipation, the ‘Jewish Question’ and Antisemitism: Difficult Connections
Karin Stoegner: Nationalism and Antisemitism in the Postnational Constellation: Thoughts on Horkheimer, Adorno, and Habermas
David M. Seymour: The Holocaust as Moral Commodity: the Visibility of the Holocaust and the Resentiment of Antisemitism
Room C:Critical Theory Today
Titus Stahl: Power – An Even More Radical View
Joshua Kleinfeld: Value Ascription
Mathijs Peters: ‘A Last Quivering Remainder’: On the Normativity of Bodily Empathy and Suffering
Break
17:30 – 19:30
Room A:Workshop on Subjects of Crisis: Rethinking Emancipation
Brian Milstein: Cosmopolitanism and Crisis in Critical Theory: Habermas contra Habermas
Stefanie Wöhl: The Crisis of Political Representation in the European Union
Blair Taylor: Protest in Crisis: From Antiglobalization to Occupy Wall Street
Ethan Zane Miller: Crisis as Meta-Crisis: Epistemological Doubt and the Reconfiguration of History
Room B:Critical Theory Today
Zuzana Uhde: The Meaning of Transnational Care Practices
Claudio Corradetti: Transitional Justice as Critical Genealogy
Julian Culp: A Critical Theory of Transnational Justice and the Global Basic Structure
Room C: Protest: Philosophical, Political, and Cultural Perspectives
Nancy S. Love: Protest From The Right: How White Power Music Is Reuniting Culture and Politics
Davide Cadeddu: Liberty for Culture of Dissent
Jörg Schaub: Towards an Activist Political Theory? Remarks on Recent Attempts to Rethink the Relationship between Political Theory and Political Activism
Kevin W. Gray: The Failure of the Post-1968 Consensus
Sunday, May 13
10:00 – 11:30
Room A: Plenary
Rainer Forst: Noumenal Power
Break
11:45 – 13:15
Room A:Critical Theory Today
Italo Testa: False Condition. Critical Theory and Social Ontology
Eva Buddeberg: What Makes Us Moral? Recognition of the Other and the Cognition of Moral Responsibility
Kristina Lepold: Social Integration from a Recognition-Theoretic Perspective
Room B:The Challenges of Post-democracy
Steven L. Winter: For Václav Havel: On Democracy, Markets, and Consumer Society
Jan Májíček: Havel and the War
Petra Gümplová: Rethinking Resistance with Václav Havel
Room C:Labor, Growth, and Other Dogmas of Capitalism
Ondřej Štěch: Critical Theory and Growth: Can They Decouple?
Sergio Cremaschi: Malthus’s War on Poverty
Peter J. Verovšek: Memory, Narrative and Rupture: The Past as a Resource for Political Change in the Foundation of Europe
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