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>,