Workshop on Men & Citizens
Dr. Christophe Salvat, research fellow at CNRS (GREQAM, Marseille) and visiting research fellow at the Centre and Robinson College, is organising a workshop to take place on 14-15 July at Robinson College, Cambridge.
The general theme of the workshop is citizenship, in homage to Judith Shklar and to echo the opposing but sometimes ambivalent relationship between cosmopolitan and patriotic traditions of citizenship.
The aim of the workshop is to discuss a number of questions. How can we define the idea of citizenship? What are the main approaches to citizenship from Aristotle to Habermas? How can one justify citizenship, i.e. a voluntary compliance to a community's rules, from a rational point of view? How did past philosophers address the issues raised by citizenship, and how can these reflections, developed in a particular historical context, still be useful for us today? Can the ethical idea of citizenship be congruent with modern ideas of individuality and rationality?
Amongst participants will be Caitlin Anderson, Eugenio Biagini, Myles Burnyeat, Melissa Lane, Catherine Larrere, Katy Long, Emile Perreau-Saussine and Richard Whatmore.
Please contact Dr. Salvat at cs495@cam.ac.uk for further information.
