Wednesday, 24 May 2017, 7 pm, Institut Français, Kurfürstendamm 211
French with German translation
A spectre is haunting Europe, and not only Europe. Populism is without a doubt among today’s hottest topics, and accordingly philosophy too cannot but occupy itself with the question: What, then, is populism?
Discussants:
Éric Fassin Université Paris-VIII
Estelle Ferrarese Université de Picardie Jules Verne
Jean-Claude Monod CNRS | Archives Husserl de Paris
Moderation:
Roberto Nigro Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
The event is part of the series dis:positions | French Philosophy Today.
Éric Fassin is a professor of sociology in the Departement of Political Science and the Department of Gender Studies at Université Paris-VIII (after 5 years at New York University and 18 years at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris), and a researcher affiliated with the Laboratoire d‘études de genre et de sexualité (LEGS, CNRS | Paris-VIII | Paris-Nanterre). His research focuses on contemporary sexual and racial politics in a comparative perspective, particularly in France and the United States. Recent publications include: Populisme. Le grand ressentiment (2017), Gauche. L’avenir d’une désillusion (2014), Roms & riverains. Une politique municipale de la race (2014), Démocratie précaire. Chroniques de la déraison d’État (2012) and Le sexe politique. Genre et sexualité au miroir transatlantique (2009).
Estelle Ferrarese is a professor of moral and political philosophy at Université Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens. Before, she has been a Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York, a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and a research fellow at the Centre Marc Bloch. Her publications include, besides numerous articles on Critical Theory, deliberative democracy, and vulnerability as a political category, the books: Vulnerability (forthcoming), Ethique et politique de l’espace public. Habermas et la discussion (2015) and Qu’est-ce que lutter pour la reconnaissance? (2013).
Jean-Claude Monod is directeur de recherche at the CNRS | Archives Husserl de Paris and teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His research focuses on topics of political philosophy, German philosophy after Hegel, and contemporary philosophy and the humanities. Among his principal publications are Qu‘est-ce qu‘un chef en démocratie? (2012), Penser l‘ennemi, affronter l‘exception. Réflexions critiques sur l‘actualité de Carl Schmitt (2007, re-edition 2016), Hans Blumenberg (2007), Sécularisation et laïcité (2007), La querelle de la sécularisation. De Hegel à Blumenberg (2002, third edition 2016), Foucault. La police des conduites (1997, re-edition 2009).
Roberto Nigro is a professor of philosophy with a focus on continental philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy and Theory of Art at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg and ancien directeur de programme at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. His work is situated at the interface between contemporary French philosophy, the legacy of classical German philosophy in thought today, and Italian theory and philosophy of culture. Among his recent publications are Vierzig Jahre »Überwachen und Strafen«. Zur Aktualität der Foucault‘schen Machtanalyse (co-edited with Marc Rölli, 2017), Wahrheitsregime (2015), and Ästhetik der Existenz. Lebensformen im Widerstreit (co-edited with Elke Bippus and Jörg Huber, 2013).
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