Conference „Philosophy and Social Science"

May 9 – 13, 2012

Venue: 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 False Dilemmas

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 of Habermas, Apel, and Foucault

Zhou Suiming: Studies on Habermas and Their Influences 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 Social Criticism

Martin Kopecký: (Lifelong) Learning Policy between Welfare Substitution and Reflexivity

Anna Marie Smith: Justice and School Finance: Is There a Radical Egalitarian Future Hidden 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

Junya Yuan: Critical Remarks on Frankfurt School Critical Theory

Johanna Meehan: Critical Theory and the Self: Rethinking Internalization and Autonomy

John McGuire: The Problem of Transformative Political Agency in Rawls and Fraser

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

Arianne Conty: 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?" A Deliberation 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

Philipe 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: Praxis as Communicative Action: About the Relation Between Praxis, Sittlichkeit, Communicative Action and Democracy

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

Lenny Moss: Critical Theory, Human Agency and the Need for a New "Critical" Metaphysics

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