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" <afmanent@fas.harvard.edu>,
"Jamie Martin" <r.jamie.martin@gmail.com>,
"Andrew Spadafora" <spadafor@fas.harvard.edu>,
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