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Political philosophy seminar

8 March 2013 @ 14:00 - 16:30

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Registration To register for the meetings please send an email to demaagt@fbw.eur.nl. Papers will be distributed two weeks in advance. During the meeting the speakers will briefly introduce their paper, followed by a commentary and a general discussion. Everyone is expected to have read the papers before the meeting. Program 1. Robin Celikates: Recognition, Conflict and the Politics of Needs Comments: Joel AndersonIn this paper I address some of the problems that contemporary theories of recognition face in explaining the link between needs, recognition, and the conditions of…

Registration

To register for the meetings please send an email to demaagt@fbw.eur.nl. Papers will be distributed two weeks in advance. During the meeting the speakers will briefly introduce their paper, followed by a commentary and a general discussion. Everyone is expected to have read the papers before the meeting.

Program

1. Robin Celikates: Recognition, Conflict and the Politics of Needs
Comments: Joel AndersonIn this paper I address some of the problems that contemporary theories of recognition face in explaining the link between needs, recognition, and the conditions of agency. The paper has three parts: I will first sketch how this link can be conceived and discuss in how far recognition itself can be understood as a basic human need. Starting from the idea that a basic human need is something that it is necessary for human beings to have, I will then discuss the implications of understanding recognition as a condition of agency. After having pointed out some of the problems such an understanding has to confront, I will, in the last step, argue for a negative, minimalist and proceduralist approach that focuses on misrecognition and conceives of recognition as primarily directed at the status of agents as parties in struggles for and over recognition.
Robin Celikates teaches political and social philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. His current work is on civil disobedience, Rousseau's political philosophy and issues in critical theory (recognition, ideology, collective action).
2. Sine Bağatur: Toward a new political conception of human rights Comments: Christian van der VeekeDescription: Recently, Rainer Forst (1999, 2010) has provided a constructivist conception of human rights which is different from both natural and practical conceptions in terms of the normative genesis and validity of human rights. In this essay, I defend a new political approach in the same manner with Forst, which is political in a new sense in the sense that it differs in terms of justification and moral grounding of human rights from the accounts generally labeled as political conceptions in the literature. I will also argue that this new political conceptualization of human rights embraces the social and historical aspects of human rights as “struggle concepts” with a specific reference and examination of the case of “the right to housing” struggles.Sine Bağatur is a PhD student at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She working on a project about social movements and human rights.

Organizer

This seminar is organized by the OZSW study group Political Philosophy.

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Date:
8 March 2013
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14:00 - 16:30
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Venue

Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, H5-6 (H gebouw, vijfde verdieping, lokaal 6)
H5-6 (H gebouw, vijfde verdieping, lokaal 6)
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Sem de Maagt
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Registration

To register for the meetings please send an email to demaagt@fbw.eur.nl. Papers will be distributed two weeks in advance. During the meeting the speakers will briefly introduce their paper, followed by a commentary and a general discussion. Everyone is expected to have read the papers before the meeting.

Program

1. Robin Celikates: Recognition, Conflict and the Politics of Needs

Comments: Joel AndersonIn this paper I address some of the problems that contemporary theories of recognition face in explaining the link between needs, recognition, and the conditions of agency. The paper has three parts: I will first sketch how this link can be conceived and discuss in how far recognition itself can be understood as a basic human need. Starting from the idea that a basic human need is something that it is necessary for human beings to have, I will then discuss the implications of understanding recognition as a condition of agency. After having pointed out some of the problems such an understanding has to confront, I will, in the last step, argue for a negative, minimalist and proceduralist approach that focuses on misrecognition and conceives of recognition as primarily directed at the status of agents as parties in struggles for and over recognition.
Robin Celikates teaches political and social philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. His current work is on civil disobedience, Rousseau’s political philosophy and issues in critical theory (recognition, ideology, collective action).
2. Sine Bağatur: Toward a new political conception of human rights
Comments: Christian van der VeekeDescription: Recently, Rainer Forst (1999, 2010) has provided a constructivist conception of human rights which is different from both natural and practical conceptions in terms of the normative genesis and validity of human rights. In this essay, I defend a new political approach in the same manner with Forst, which is political in a new sense in the sense that it differs in terms of justification and moral grounding of human rights from the accounts generally labeled as political conceptions in the literature. I will also argue that this new political conceptualization of human rights embraces the social and historical aspects of human rights as “struggle concepts” with a specific reference and examination of the case of “the right to housing” struggles.Sine Bağatur is a PhD student at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She working on a project about social movements and human rights.

Organizer

This seminar is organized by the OZSW study group Political Philosophy.

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