[Davet] Bilim Akademisi Yılın Konferansı 2022: Şeyla BENHABIB

Bilim Akademisi Yılın Konferansı 2022’de bu sene Onursal Üyesi Şeyla Benhabib’i “The Idea of Sovereignty from Thomas Hobbes to Hannah Arendt and Carl Schmitt” konulu konuşmasıyla ağırlıyor.

17 Aralık’ta İş Sanat’ta gerçekleştirilecek konferansa katılabileceğinizi umuyor, katılım durumunuzu 16 Aralık tarihine kadar ofise bildirmenizi rica ediyoruz.

LCV: ofis@bilimakademisi.org | +90 212 227 07 99

Konuşmanın dili İngilizcedir, katılım herkese açıktır.

Resepsiyon: 16:00

Konferans: 17:00

Konuşma Özeti:

Sovereignty is a seminal concept in modern political thought, migrating from the absolutist vision of Thomas Hobbes in his Leviathan of 1651 to Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s work a century later in The Social Contract. With Rousseau’s work sovereignty assumes its central place in modern theories of democratic self-governance.

Yet, as Hannah Arendt as well as Carl Schmitt have pointed out, Rousseau’s reformulation of sovereignty in terms the “will of all” and “the general will” is hardly democratic. Arendt argues that sovereignty is opposed to an emancipatory politics because it reduces the plurality of political life to univocity; Schmitt argues that sovereignty is a privilege of the state and not of the people. Hence, Schmitt’s famous sentence- “Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.”

Distinguishing between sovereignty as applied to the state and the concept of ‘popular sovereignty,’ this lecture will discuss transformations of state sovereignty under conditions of neo-liberal financial globalization. I will argue that the aspirations expressed as ‘popular sovereignty’ must be reformulated without recourse of a metaphysics of substance. What forms of self-governance can we imagine in a post-sovereign context?