12th Political Philosophy Workshop: "Three Conceptions of the ‘Political"

Written by：管理员 Last updated：2018-04-09

Organizer: Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-Sen University

Topic: "Three Conceptions of the ‘Political’"

Speaker: Duncan Ivison  (Professor, University of Sydney)

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

Discussant: Tim Beaumont (Research Associate, Sun Yat-sen University)

Time: April 19th, 10:00am-12:00am

Venue: Administration Building 13, Room 106

 

Prof. Duncan Ivison is currently Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) at the University of Sydney. He has published widely and is the author of 'The Self at Liberty' (1997), 'Postcolonial Liberalism' (2002) and co-editor of 'Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples' (2000).

 

Abstract of Lecture:

The dominance of Rawlsian and Habermasian political theory over the past two decades has resulted in a desire for more realistic and contextually specific political theory. In this paper, he explores three different conceptions of the 'political' from this perspective.