Philosophy & the Political: Perspectives on the Future of Democracy

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The Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS) has organized the Fall 2014 colloquium, «Philosophy & the Political: Perspectives on the Future of Democracy.»  This colloquium, directed by Dr. Claudia Landolfi and myself, features the foremost scholarly voices in the English speaking world including:

David Allen

Antonio Negri

George Katsiaficas

Shon Meckfessel

Himanshu Damle

Michael Hardt

Martin Rosenberg

Brad Evans

Lori Marso

Adrian Parr

Giovanni Tusa

This Colloquium will be organized into GCAS Press’ «V-Book» that will be forthcoming.  But I wanted to take time to highlight a few remarks before the colloquium concludes.  First it is important to note the relationship between Philosophy & the Political.  In today’s academic world, premised as it is on the modernist notion of fragmenting academic inquiry into various subfields, English, Biology, Sociology and so forth, the first disposition is to first think of a subject (Philosophy or Politics) as separate and then, only secondarily…

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