Rethinking Responses to Political Crisis and Collapse: Hannah Arendt, Edith Stein, Rosa Luxemburg, and Simone Weil
Keynote Speakers:
Anna Rowlands, Durham University
Rebecca Rozelle-Stone, University of North Dakota
Dates: March 6–8, 2020
King’s University College at Western University
London, Ontario
Rosa Luxemburg, Edith Stein, Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt were contemporaries. They each experienced the crises and political collapse that devastated Europe in the first half of the 20th century. This conference examines how each thinker lived and conceived of their respective political crisis as well as their responses to it. Each thinker had a developed practical response to the crisis, but they also believed that the crisis and collapse of their society required a rethinking of politics. This rethinking produced theoretical treatises on what a new politics or political society ought to look like. We welcome paper proposals that examine the political treatises produced by the thinkers in order to assess critically the political visions offered.
We invite abstracts for proposed papers (250 word maximum) that explore the social and political works of Arendt, Luxemburg, Stein, and Weil. We also invite papers on the following themes: collapse, reform, revolution in Luxemburg; politics of the inter-esse, speech and deed in Arendt; the state community of law in Edith Stein; the nation of obligation in Weil. We will also consider papers that create a dialogue between the aforementioned thinkers and other philosophers, disciplines, or fields of study. We also encourage papers that treat the theme of crisis and rethinking the political more broadly and introduce new or understudied thinkers or perspectives, especially from varied philosophical traditions.
Deadline for Abstracts: December 15, 2019
All abstracts should be sent to :
Antonio Calcagno (acalcagn@uwo.ca) and Stephen Lofts (slofts@uwo.ca)
Unfortunately, we are unable to provide funding to participate in or attend the conference.
For more information, please contact Antonio Calcagno (acalcagn@uwo.ca) or Stephen Lofts (slofts@uwo.ca)