Conference: Enlightenment Ethics in the 21st Century
The 1999 Annual International Conference of the Conference for the Study of Political Thought was held at Yale University, USA. This conference was co-sponsored by the CSPT and the Yale Program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics (YPEPE), with the aid of the Robert and Louise Olmsted Fund. The academic organizers were Corey Robin, Rogers Smith, Ian Shapiro, and Nancy Rosenblum. Access to full texts, which may be read where a hyperlink is evident, is reserved for CSPT members. Note that papers will open in a separate window. Close that window to return to CSPT site.
| Programme |
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| 1.
The Enlightenment in Historical Context
Chair: Joan Tronto (CUNY) |
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| Joyce Appleby (UCLA): Dead Everywhere Except the United States | |
Bernard Yack, (Wisconsin): Three Images of the Enlightenment |
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| 2.
Reasonable Creatures: Gender Politics in an Enlightened Age
Chair: Stephen White (Virginia Tech) Discussant: David Bromwich
(Yale) |
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| Lisa Disch (Minnesota): How are we Reasonable? Feminism, Storytelling, and the Seductions of Narrative | |
| Jane Mansbridge (Harvard): Towards an Ethos of Equal Concern and Respect: The Impetus of Wollstonecraft's Sexual Sensibility |
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| 3.
Crime and Punishment: Criminal Justice, Then and Now
Chair: Nancy Rosenblum (Brown) |
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| Akhil Amar (Yale): The Future of Constitutional Criminal Procedure | |
| David Cole (Georgetown): The End of Enlightenment: The Uses of Inequality in Criminal Justice | |
| Thomas Dumm (Amherst): Enlightenment as Punishment | |
Susan Shell (Boston College): Kant’s Theory of Punishment |
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| 4.
Economy and Polity: Ethics of the Market
Chair: John McCormick (Yale) Discussant: Francis Fox Piven (CUNY) |
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| Amitai Etzioni (George Washington): The Interventionist Power of Economic Actors | |
| Amy Gutmann (Princeton): Political Ethics, Personal, Ethics, and the Market: Some Unresolved and Unresolvable Tensions | |
| David Schmidtz (Arizona): How To Deserve |
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| 5.
Perpetual Peace: International Politics in a Global Age
Chair: Sharon Snowiss (Pitzer) Discussant: Richard Falk (Princeton) |
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| George Kateb (Princeton): Perpetual Peace Not Possible | |
| Pratap Mehta (Harvard): Collective Rights and Democratic Majorities | |
Sankar Muthu (New School): Enlightenment Anti-Imperialism |
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| 6. Contemporary Legacies of the Enlightenment Chair: Martyn Thompson (Tulane) |
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| Marshall Berman (CUNY) | |
| John Patrick Diggins (CUNY) | |
| Paul Gilroy (Yale) | |
| Ann Norton (Pennsylvania) | |