14th Political Philosophy Workshop: "Why Political Meritocracy Failed in Western Europe?"

Political Philosophy Workshop (XIV)

Topic: Why Political Meritocracy Failed in Western Europe?

Speaker: James Hankins (Professor, Harvard University )

Moderator: Jun-Hyeok Kwak (Professor, Sun Yat-sen University)

Discussant: Dr. Susanne Kathrin BEIWEIS (Research Associate, Sun Yat-sen University)

Time: Jun. 6, 16:00 -18:00

Venue: R106, No.13 Administrative Building of Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), SYSU

James HANKINS is a professor in the History Department of Harvard University and the General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library and Associate Editor of the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum. He got his Ph.D. in History from Columbia University (1985), and since then he has been working on history of philosophy, theology, literature and political thought. He is the author or editor of over twenty volumes and more than eighty articles, essays and book chapters. And in 2012 he was honored with the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award of the Renaissance Society. 

Abstract:

Various historical and philosophical concerns with meritocracy have adopted a wide array of institutions and customary practices that have yet to be evaluated in comparative perspective. In this paper, with the case of Western Europe, I will see about the question of what wider structural conditions have to obtain for politicalmeritocracy to be successful.