Event overview
020 7919 7749
Public Lecture at Centre for Postcolonial Studies
Abstract:
What underlies the widespread assumption that what happened in Europe must happen everywhere else in the world, including its erstwhile colonies? Is it a belief in iron laws of history? Or is it a more normative, less deterministic, view that what happened in Europe was rational, so it ought to happen everywhere else in the world? Akeel Bilgrami will explore these questions via a discussion of a range of issues and concepts such as alienation, rationality, the social contract, the tragedy of the commons, and the political and economic ideals of the liberal enlightenment.
Bio:
Akeel Bilgrami is Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, where he is also a founding member of the Committee on Global Thought. He is the author of a number of books on philosophical, and often political and ethical, themes, including Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment (Harvard University Press, 2014) Occidentalism, the Very Idea: An Essay on Enlightenment and Enchantment (University of Chicago, 2006). He is currently working on a book entitled What is a Muslim? (Princeton University Press)
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 1 Feb 2017 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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