Nous vous invitons à la conférence “Democratic Hope”, donnée par Jakob Huber, chercheur post-doctoral en science politique à l’Université Goethe, Francfort. Ses recherches portent sur l’apport de la pensée de Kant à la pensée politique contemporaine.
Voici le résumé en anglais de la conférence :
« The language of hope is ubiquitous in democratic life. Citizens hope for their cause or candidate to prevail, activists describe their fight against oppression and injustice as bolstered by shared hopes, politicians invoke hope to galvanise support. Political philosophers, by contrast, have for long neglected the topic. The aim of my project is to develop a systematic account of the role of hope in democratic life that is sensitive to its unavoidability as much as its dangers. What are the appropriate objects of hope in modern, diverse democracies? Under which conditions are we licensed (or even obligated) to hope? What is the significance of democratic hope and why (if at all) should we prefer it to alternative attitudes such as fear or optimism? Answers to these (and adjacent) questions will provide us with a clearer picture of the circumstances under which certain types of hope should be welcomed in democratic life, and why ».
La conférence aura lieu à la salle Lothar-Baier, située au 5e étage du 3744, rue Jean-Brillant.
Nous vous invitons à la conférence “Democratic Hope”, donnée par Jakob Huber, chercheur post-doctoral en science politique à l’Université Goethe, Francfort. Ses recherches portent sur l’apport de la pensée de Kant à la pensée politique contemporaine.
Voici le résumé en anglais de la conférence :
« The language of hope is ubiquitous in democratic life. Citizens hope for their cause or candidate to prevail, activists describe their fight against oppression and injustice as bolstered by shared hopes, politicians invoke hope to galvanise support. Political philosophers, by contrast, have for long neglected the topic. The aim of my project is to develop a systematic account of the role of hope in democratic life that is sensitive to its unavoidability as much as its dangers. What are the appropriate objects of hope in modern, diverse democracies? Under which conditions are we licensed (or even obligated) to hope? What is the significance of democratic hope and why (if at all) should we prefer it to alternative attitudes such as fear or optimism? Answers to these (and adjacent) questions will provide us with a clearer picture of the circumstances under which certain types of hope should be welcomed in democratic life, and why ».
La conférence aura lieu à la salle Lothar-Baier, située au 5e étage du 3744, rue Jean-Brillant.
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