Former Fellow

Eduardo Mendieta

Professor of Philosophy and Associate Director of the Rock Ethics Institute at The Pennsylvania State University

Research project title:
Enlightened Religion: Jürgen Habermas’s Philosophy of Religion

Abstract
With this project Eduardo Mendieta aims to track the development of Habermas’s thinking about religion, beginning in the sixties, when he wrote some important essays on the role of Jewish thinkers in the transmission of German Idealism, to his forthcoming two volume book Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie (Suhrkamp, 2019), which traces the debate between faith and knowledge from ancient times through the nineteenth century.

Events:
THE EVENT IS CANCELLED!

17-19 March 2020
Symposium
“Present of Religion – Future of Philosophy. Reflections on the latest work by Jürgen Habermas”

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THE EVENT IS CANCELED!
April 16, 2020, 11am
Fellow Colloquium
“Jus Soli: On Normative Grounds”

  • Biografische Angaben

    Prof. Eduardo Mendieta has taught at the University of San Francisco and Stony Brook University of the SUNY System, as well as at universities in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil. He works primarily on twentieth century Latin American philosophy and post-WWII German philosophy (especially the work of Karl-Otto Apel and Jürgen Habermas). He is co-editor with Jonathan VanAntwerpen of The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere (Columbia University Press, 2011), with Craig Calhoun and Jonathan VanAntwerpen of Habermas and Religion (Polity, 2013), with Amy Allen, From Alienation to Forms of Life: The Critical Theory of Rahel Jaeggi (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018), and with Amy Allen of the Cambridge Habermas Lexicon (Cambridge University Press, 2019). He recently finished a book entitled The Philosophical Animal, which will be published by SUNY Press in 2019. He is the 2017 recipient of the Frantz Fanon Outstanding Achievements Award. During his residence as a Fellow of the Excellence Cluster Normative Orders he will give a series of seminars and will coordinate a conference that relates to his research project.
  • Publikationen

    – With Jonathan VanAntwerpen: The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere (Columbia University Press, 2011) – With Craig Calhoun and Jonathan VanAntwerpen: Habermas and Religion (Polity, 2013) – With Amy Allen: From Alienation to Forms of Life: The Critical Theory of Rahel Jaeggi (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018) – With Amy Allen: The Cambridge Habermas Lexicon (Cambridge University Press, 2019) – The Philosophical Animal (Forthcoming 2019)

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