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23.06.2026 | Frankfurt am Main
Workshop

The Legacy of Kant’s Political Philosophy

A Workshop with Howard Williams

Schedule

Tuesday, 23 June 2026

2 – 3 pm

Rainer Forst (Goethe University): Welcome

Marcus Willaschek (Goethe University): In the Shadow of the Critique of Pure Reason (Ch. 1)

3.15 – 4.15

Joel Klein (Goethe University): The Warped Timber of Humanity: Unsociable Sociability in Kant (Ch. 2)

4.30 – 5.30

Peter Niesen (Hamburg University): Kant on Right and the Role of the APriori (Ch. 3)

6 – 7 pm

Darrel Moellendorf (Goethe University): Hegel and Kant (Ch. 6)

7.15 – 8.15

Elisabeth Widmer (LSE): The Political Philosophies of Kant and Marx (Ch. 7)

 

Wednesday, 24 June 2026

10.15 – 11.15

Sofie Møller (Cologne University): T.H. Green’s Kantian Political Philosophy (Ch. 8)

11.30 – 12.30

Regina Schidel (Goethe University): Hannah Arendt and Kant’s Political Philosophy (Ch. 11)

12.30 – 1.30 Lunch

1.30 – 2.30

Rainer Forst (Goethe University): John Rawls and Kant’s Practical Philosophy (Ch. 13)

2.45 – 3.45

Eva Buddeberg (Marburg University): Habermas and Kant: Critique and renewal of the German Philosophical Tradition (Ch. 14)

 


 

Please register by 5 June 2026 at hamich@em.uni-frankfurt.de

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