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THE SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY:
Historical, Continental, and Feminist Perspectives
(SSPP)
www.sspp.us
CALL FOR PAPERS
FOR THE SOCIETY’S MEETING TO BE HELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH
The Eastern APA (American Philosophical Association) in 2006
The SSPP invites papers for two conference panels. We are seeking
papers that address issues pertaining to:
Religion and Politics Revisited
Western liberalism was founded in part on the removal of religion from
the public sphere for the purpose of both domesticating and
depoliticizing it. But throughout the modern era religion has
repeatedly erupted into public life. Global trends such as the
increasing influence of martyrdom and the expansion of trans-national
missionary practices have mobilized religious fundamentalisms in the
service of political ends. Yet these religious movements, though
typically reactionary in their social agendas, often harbor powerful
critiques of modernity and the state. In light of the complicated
relation that religious movements have had, and continue to have,
vis-à-vis the secular state system, there is a need to revisit
religious practices and to evaluate them not only in terms of their
reactionary principles but in terms of their critical potential as
well. Possible topics include: religion and trans-national communities,
fundamentalism and violence, religion and globalization, and
progressive theoretical engagements with religious writings.
Complete papers of 3000-5000 words (that can be summarized and
presented in 20-30 minutes) should be submitted for consideration for
the 2006 meeting (deadline: March 1, 2006). The meeting will be
scheduled for December 27-30, 2006 in Washington, D.C.
Authors should include their name(s) and contact information on the
cover page ONLY.
Papers should be emailed as attachments in Word or RTF format to
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For information on the society, and to become a member, please consult
our web page at www.sspp.us.
For other questions or information, please email us at
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THE SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY:
Historical, Continental, and Feminist Perspectives
(SSPP)
www.sspp.us
CALL FOR PAPERS
FOR THE SOCIETY’S MEETINGS TO BE HELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH
SPEP (Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) in 2006
The SSPP invites papers for two conference panels. We are seeking
papers that address issues pertaining to:
Rethinking Democracy
As a political project, or ideal, democracy is often considered to be
beyond criticism or questioning. This elevation of the concept or word
“democracy” to a universal ideal, universal in that all political
projects, liberal, anarchist, populist, Marxist, feminist, etc. claim
to be the true means to realizing this ideal, is coupled with a crisis
in terms of “actually existing” democracy. Democracy is threatened
internally by the perfection of tools of marketing, which reduce the
politics of democracy to the business of advertising, while at the same
time democracy is threatened externally, outside of the state, by
global politics that reduce national governments and their
constituencies to relative powerlessness. In light of this gap between
the ideal and reality of democracy, there is a need to rethink
democracy in terms of both its concepts and its practices. Possible
topics include: democracy and globalization, democracy and anarchism,
democracy and “the society of the spectacle,” populism,
neo-conservative movements, democracy and race, and forms of democracy
yet to come.
Complete papers of 3000-5000 words (that can be summarized and
presented in 20-30 minutes) should be submitted for consideration for
the 2006 meeting (deadline: March 1, 2006). The meeting will be
scheduled for late October/early November 2006, in Philadelphia.
Authors should include their name(s) and contact information on the
cover page ONLY.
Papers should be emailed as attachments in Word or RTF format to
[log in to unmask]
For information on the society, and to become a member, please consult
our web page at www.sspp.us.
For other questions or information, please email us at
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