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
Organizer: R. Forst (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), DFG-Leibniz Research Group Transnational Justice in cooperation with Normative Orders (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
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"
