Democracy: Principles and Practice, Resilience and Innovation
Annual Conference of the Research Program “Zeitenwenden. Normative Ordnungen im Umbruch?”
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Thursday, 9 July
15:00 – 15:15 | Rainer Forst & Thomas Biebricher (Goethe University)
Introduction
15:15 – 16:15 | Arthur Ripstein (University of Toronto)
The Public Use of Reason
16:30 – 17:30 | Astrid Séville (Leuphana University of Lüneburg)
Sentimentality and Objectivity [Sachlichkeit]: A Problem History of Democracy
17:45 – 18:45 | John McCormick (University of Chicago)
Rousseau, Schmitt, and the Legitimization of Minoritarian “Democracy”
Friday, 10 July
10:15 – 11:15 | Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University)
Political Freedom: The Struggle of Our Time
11:30 – 12:30 | Claudia Landwehr (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
From Promises to Procedures: Equal Deliberative Responsiveness as a Criterion for Successful Democratic Representation
11:30 – 12:30 Lunch Break
13:15 – 14:15 | Hubertus Buchstein (University of Greifswald)
Against Vulgar Democracy!
14:30 – 15:30 | Peter Niesen (University of Hamburg)
Countering Democratic Regression: Is Political Constitutionalism the Answer?
