The History of Postmetaphysical Philosophy and the Future of Democracy
Conference in Honor of Jürgen Habermas
June 20 and 21, 2019
Normative Orders, EG 01 + 02
Max-Horkheimer-Strasse 2
Goethe University Frankfurt
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Program
June 20 2019
10:00
Welcome Address
Rainer Forst
10:15
Panel 1: The Genealogy of Postmetaphysical Thought
Peter Gordon – “Eine Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts? The History of Philosophy as a Rationalizing Translation out of the Sources of Religion”
Matthias Lutz-Bachmann – “Reason and Free Will of the Human Actor: The Contribution of Medieval Philosophy to an Ethics and Theory of Rights not based on Metaphysics”
Thomas McCarthy – “Thoughts on the Dialectic of Postmetaphysical Reason”
11:30 Break
12:00 Continued
Pauline Kleingeld – “Kant's Metaphysics of Morality”
Thomas Schmidt – “The Sublation of Faith and Knowledge. Hegel’s Post-metaphysical Philosophy of Religion”
Axel Honneth – “Secular Reason? A Short Comment on Jürgen Habermas, Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie”
13:45 Lunch
15:00
Panel 2: Religion in Contemporary Society
Charles Taylor – “Our Secular Age”
Maeve Cooke – “Postmetaphysical Thinking and the Ecological Challenge”
Micha Brumlik – “Religion of Reason: Kant, Cohen and Habermas”
16:30 Break
17:00 Continued
Eduardo Mendieta – “Enlightened Religion and Liberation Theology: The Linguistification of Freedom”
Alessandro Ferrara – “Embodied, De-transcendentalized Reason and the Sources of Solidarity”
18:30 End of Session
June 21 2019
10:00
Panel 3: The Crisis of Democracy
Claus Offe – “The ‘Will of the People’ – A Fallacy of Composition?”
Oskar Negt – “‘Erosionskrisen’ - Crises of Erosions”
Klaus Günther – “Rule of Law and Rule by Law”
11:30 Break
12:00 Continued
Jean Cohen – “The Crisis of Political Representation: Rethinking the Party/Movement Relation in the Context of Populist Challenges to Constitutional Democracy”
Andrew Arato – “Populism as Movement, Government and Regime”
13:30 Lunch
15:00
Panel 4: The Future of Democracy
Seyla Benhabib – “Popular Sovereignty and Judicial Review. Challenges of Democracy in Post-Metaphysical Times”
Nancy Fraser – “Legitimation Crisis of Financialized Capitalism”
Hauke Brunkhorst – “Return of Politics. The Kierkegaardian Moment of September 15, 2008”
16:30 Break
17:00 Continued
Peter Niesen – “The Future of Democratic Revolutions?”
Cristina Lafont – “Are Democracies Stuck between Populism and Technocracy? The Democratic Case against Blind Deference to either Majorities or Experts”
18:30
End of Session
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Sponsored by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Leibnizprogram)
Presented by:
DFG-Leibniz Research Group Transnational Justice in cooperation with The Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders"
Die Co-Sprecherin des Forschungszentrums "Normative Ordnungen" Prof. Nicole Deitelhoff erhält eine LOEWE-Spitzen-Professur des Landes Hessen. Wir freuen uns, dass diese Förderung ihre Forschungen zur Produktivität von Konflikten auch weiterhin fruchtbar machen wird. Weitere Informationen: 
