Call for papers:
Towards the Development of a New Radical Democracy Workshop, at European
Culture in a Changing World: Between Nationalism and Globalism: The eighth
conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas
(ISSEI), 22-27 July 2002, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK.
Deadline for submission of abstracts or papers: 15 April 2002.
We invite submissions from scholars, graduate students, lecturers and
professors.
Submissions should include:
a. title of the submission,
b. 300 word abstract,
c. two or three keywords that describe the paper,
d. name(s) of the author(s),
e. mailing address(es) and institutional affiliation,
f. e-mail address(es),
g. phone number(s),
h. fax number(s),
i. any other information you would like to provide.
Your presentation should not exceed 15-20 minutes.
All submissions will be subject to a review process. We will notify
successful submissions by email. Please submit your abstract and biography
electronically to either or both of the email addresses below, either as
attachments in Rich Text Format, or in the body of your email.
Paper presenters will be expected to circulate their papers to the other
panelists ahead of the workshop.
You will find our call for papers, and additional information about
registration at http://www.aber.ac.uk/tfts/issei2002
Description of the workshop:
Democratic theory in Europe and in the United States has changed
dramatically during the last few decades. Positions like participatory
democracy and Marxists approaches have lost some of their appeal, whereas
there has been a surge of interest in, for instance, Habermasian
deliberative democracy, Rawlsian political liberalism and Anthony Giddens’
‘The Third Way’. At the same time, and largely in opposition to the models
proposed by Habermas, Rawls and Giddens, more radical positions have been
put forward, inspired by post-structuralist approaches to the social and
human sciences. Here we could mention, amongst others, William Connolly’s
democracy of pluralization, Ernesto Laclau & Chantal Mouffe’s radical
democracy, Jacques Derrida’s democratie-ŕ-venir, and Slavoj Žižek’s Lacanian
approach. The significance of such positions is their insistence on
accepting the value of democracy while widening the imaginative horizon of
politics and ethics. In this workshop we present and discuss some of these
theories of new radical democracy with the aim of evaluating the pros and
cons of their different approaches as well as evaluating how the collective
insights of these approaches can be used as a starting point for a critique
of contemporary mainstream liberal democratic theory.
In particular, the workshop invites papers that examine one (or several) of
the following areas of new radical democracy:
The philosophy of new radical democracy: What are the philosophical
principles of new theories of radical democracy? How do these principles
conceptualize our understanding of metaphysics, politics, ethics, and
religion?
The ethics of new radical democracy: What are the ethical ideals of new
theories of radical democracy? What status do these ideals of ethics enjoy
within their conceptual and political frameworks? How successful are new
theories of democracy in mediating between the demand for universalism and
the need for paying attention to singular instances of ethical
particularity? What kind of answers can theories of new radical democracy
provide against common-sense charges such as relativism, elitism and
political arbitrariness and violence?
The politics of new radical democracy: What are the implications of new
radical democracy for traditional liberal concepts such as tolerance, public
order, sovereignty, liberty, and representative government? Are these new
theories of radical democracy better suited to answer new conditions of
globalization, multiculturalism and late capitalism more adequately than
other (liberal) theories of democracy?
The Enlightenment of new radical democracy: What kind of relationship can we
identify between the liberal project of Enlightenment, grounded in the
revolutionary experiences of France and North America, and the practice of
critique and deconstruction within theories of new radical democracy? Do
theories of new radical democracy represent a complete break with the
tradition of Enlightenment, including its discourse of liberalism, or do
these theories rather continue the tradition of Enlightenment? What is the
significance of the dialogue that theories of new radical democracy have
with historical thinkers such as Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche?
Workshop organisers:
Mr Lasse Thomassen
Doctoral Programme in Ideology and Discourse Analysis
Department of Government
University of Essex
CO4 3SQ Colchester
United Kingdom
Phone: 01206 503839
Email: lathom@essex.ac.uk
Mr Lars Třnder
Doctoral Programme in Political Theory
Department of Political Science
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, 21218 Maryland
United States
Phone: + 1 410 366 3544
Email: lars_tonder@hotmail.com
The ISSEI 2002 hopes to have a limited amount of grants available for
participants from Eastern Europe. Detailed information about the grant
programme will soon be available on the conference website at:
http://www.aber.ac.uk/tfts/issei2002
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