# German Social Thought and the Question of Religion (A Day-Long Conference: Friday, November 18) #### calendar\_today Date and Time **November 18, 2011** 09:00AM - 06:45PM EST ![november_conference.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum8956/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/harvardcolloquium/files/november_conference.jpg?itok=aGaE6meX) GERMAN SOCIAL THOUGHT AND THE QUESTION OF RELIGION A Day-Long Conference Sponsored by the Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History Date: Friday, November 18, 2011 Time: 9am to 6:45pm. Location: The Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 No registration necessary *Schedule of Events* **MORNING SESSION:** 9:00-9:05 *Welcome and Introductory Remarks*** Peter E. Gordon (Harvard) **9:05-11:00 *Weber and Schmitt:*** John McCormick (Chicago) Title: “Educable or Sinful Evil?: The Theological Status of ‘The Political’ in the Interwar Schmitt-Strauss Exchange” Tamsin Shaw (NYU) Title: “Weber’s Fideism” **11:00-11:15: *Coffee Break*** **11:15: *Weber and Schmitt*** Duncan Kelly (Cambridge, UK) Title: "Egon Zweig and the Intellectual History of Constituent Power" **12:15-1:30 *Lunch* **AFTERNOON SESSION:** **1:30-2:30 *The Frankfurt School*** Eduardo Mendieta (Stony Brook) Title: "The Religion of Reason: On the Frankfurt School's Enlightenment of Myth” **2:30-3:30 *Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde*** Jan-Werner Mueller (Princeton) Title: “Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde and German Catholicism: The Dictum and the Criterion” **3:30: *Coffee Break*** **4:00-6:00 *Habermas*** Maeve Cooke (UCDublin, and Yale, visting) Title: “The Limits of Learning. Habermas’ Social Theory and Religion” Jean-Claude Monod (ENS, Paris) Title: “Habermas and the Dialectic of Secularization” **6:00 *Discussion*** Peter E. Gordon (Moderator) **6:45 *Concluding Remarks*** \[7:30 *Dinner in Harvard Square for Invited Speakers*\] For further details please write: "Aline-Florence Manent" <>, "Jamie Martin" <>, "Andrew Spadafora" <>, Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://harvardcolloquium.hsites.harvard.edu/node/3733/event-feed.ics) Copy link link