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Programa23 de janeiro de 2012 17h00, Sala 2, CES-CoimbraBuilding a Shared World: Peoplehood and Humanity in Hannah Arendt's Jewish WritingsSerdar Tekin (Universidade Ege de Izmir) Coment&#225;rio: Giuseppe Ballacci (CEHUM) e Valerio Nitrato Izzo (CES). Resumo Hannah Arendt concludes her seminal essay &#8220;The Jew as Pariah&#8221; with the following remark in 1944. [O]nly within the framework of a people can a man live as a man  among men, without exhausting himself. And only when a people lives and functions in consort with other peoples can it contribute to the  establishment upon earth of a commonly conditioned and commonly  controlled humanity. The notions of &#8220;peoplehood&#8221; and &#8220;humanity&#8221; reside at the heart of the  political conclusions that Arendt draws from the catastrophic events of  the 1930s and 1940s in Europe. On the one hand, the fate of the European  Jewry makes it clear for her that a political community providing its  members with legal status and a place in the world is a fundamental  human good. She defends a Jewish politics of peoplehood in light of this insight, maintaining that Jews must take collective action as a people  and organize themselves into a body politic. On the other hand,  vis-&#224;-vis the horrors of totalitarianism and its unprecedented assault  on human dignity, Arendt highlights the necessity of an organized  humanity. According to her, the calamities of the 20th century demand  with unmistakable urgency the establishment of a global framework of  responsibility beyond and above sovereign nations. These considerations  present her with a difficult question: how to intertwine the politics of  peoplehood―i.e. a politics of &#8220;collective identity&#8221; and &#8220;bounded  community&#8221;―with the idea of common humanity? In this paper, I explore how Hannah Arendt grappled with this question,  primarily in her early writings, including the numerous essays on  Jewish identity and politics, and the first two volumes of The Origins  of Totalitarianism. I begin with an account of Arendt&#8217;s reflections on  the &#8220;Jewish question&#8221; with a view to unfolding her critical take on both  Enlightenment humanism and the nationalist politics of mainstream  Zionism (Section 1). Then, exploring her defense of a binational  Jewish-Arab federation in Palestine, I argue that, in republican acts of  foundation expressive of a political will to live together, Arendt sees  an alternative to essentialist models of peoplehood based on ethnic  belonging and cultural homogeneity, i.e., an alternative mode of  collective identity which is compatible with a moral consciousness  responsive to the idea of common humanity (Section 2). The next section focuses on the limits of  republican acts of foundation. More specifically, it offers an analysis  of Arendt&#8217;s memorable plea for a &#8220;right to have rights&#8221; and frames the  tension between peoplehood and humanity in view of the dilemmas of  bounded community (Section 3). Finally, in the last part of the paper, I  take up the question of what normative lessons we can draw from  Arendt&#8217;s insights (and impasses) with regards to the tension between  peoplehood and humanity today.  Notas Biogr&#225;ficas Serdar Tekin holds a BA and an MA in  philosophy. Currently, he is completing his PhD in political science at  the University of Toronto, Canada; and working as a lecturer in the  Department of Philosophy at Ege University, Turkey. While his  &#8220;disciplinary&#8221; fields of specialization are political theory and the  history of philosophy, his &#8220;topical&#8221; research interests turn on the  politics of founding, deliberative democracy, and the relations between  practical reason, reflective judgment and political narratives.&#160;&#160;&#160;His doctoral dissertation explores the concept of &#8220;political founding&#8221;  in terms of its implications for a normative theory of democracy. More  specifically, he focuses on three interlocking issues: (1) the concept  of &#8220;the people&#8221; and the legitimacy of constitutional authorship; (2) the  role of founding moments/events in reshaping political culture and  collective identity; and (3) the tension between novelty and permanence  in democratic politics. In articulating and addressing these issues, he  primarily engages with the work of Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida and  J&#252;rgen Habermas.  Giuseppe Ballacci is a FCT Postdoctoral Fellow at the  Centre for Humanistic Studies, University of Minho (CEHUM). He holds a  PhD in Political Theory from the Universidad Aut&#243;noma de Madrid and he  was a visiting scholar at the Department of Modern Languages at Uppsala  University (2008), the Departments of Philosophy and Politics at the New  School for Social Research (2006-2007), and the Centre for  International Relations at the King&#8217;s College of London (2005). His  areas of interest are Contemporary Political Theory, History of  Political Thought, and Rhetoric. In his doctoral dissertation he&#160; tried  to bring to the fore the multifaceted significance of ancient rhetoric  for contemporary political theory. Currently, he is developing his  research focusing on related issues such as political judgment, the  relation between theory and practice, and the limits of rational  deliberation. Valerio Nitrato Izzo &#233; licenciado em Direito pela  Universidade de N&#225;poles &#8220;Federico II&#8221;, onde obteve tamb&#233;m Doutoramento  em Filosofia do Direito: Arte e t&#233;cnica da Jurisprud&#234;ncia &#8211; Hermen&#234;utica  dos Direitos Humanos. Estudou na European Academy of Legal Theory em  Bruxelas onde obteve um mestrado em Teoria do Direito.Atualmente &#233; p&#243;s-doutorando no Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade  de Coimbra onde desenvolve o projeto de investiga&#231;&#227;o &#8220;O impacto da  cat&#225;strofe sobre os sistemas jur&#237;dicos: estrat&#233;gias de regula&#231;&#227;o e  prote&#231;&#227;o contra a vulnerabilidade social. O papel do Estado entre  estatualismo, cosmopolitismo e p&#243;s-colonialismo&#8221; sob orienta&#231;&#227;o dos  Prof. Doutores Ant&#243;nio Casimiro Ferreira e Jos&#233; Manuel Mendes.24 de janeiro de 2012 17h00, Sala 2, CES-CoimbraDemocracy and OpennessAlessandro Ferrara (Universidade de Roma) Coment&#225;rio: Serdar Tekin (Universidade Ege de Izmir). Resumo In this paper at issue is the nature of the democratic ethos or of the spirit of democracy.  In a world where many more regimes describe themselves as democratic  than there are truly democratic ones, the difference is perhaps best  conceived not so much with reference to rules as with reference to the  ethos underlying the institutions, civil society, the citizens. As we  have learnt from Max Weber, capitalism in a generic sense, as a  disposition to seek profit by occasional speculation, is quite different  from an economic activity inspired by the &#34;spirit of capitalism&#34;.  Following this track, how can we characterize the &#34;spirit of democracy&#34;?  The &#8220;culture of democracy&#8221; has long been investigated in modern  political thought: the received tradition has focused on republican  virtue, or the passion for the common good, on the passion for equality,  and on the &#34;passion for individualism&#34; as the affective bases of a  stable and flourishing democracy.A novel dimension of the democratic ethos, explored in the paper, is  the nexus of democracy and a public propensity or passion for  &#34;openness&#8221;. This term captures an attitude of receptiveness to novelty,  of exploration of new possibilities for a life form, for a historical  horizon, for a social configuration -- an attitude for which Popper's  notion of the &#34;open society&#34; represents only a reductive and somehow  misleading version. The opposite of this propensity to openness consists  of a tendency to perceive the new as always potentially dangerous,  subversive, disquieting or threatening, of a longing for continuity at  all cost and for the certainty that nothing will change. Also in this  case, our reflection implicitly concerns the distinction of left and  right, progressivism and conservatism, and combines them with openness  and closure. The success of neoliberalism is somehow connected with the  nexus of democracy and openness: progressive political forces can more  easily prevail over a conservatism of closure, but face severe  difficulties when confronted with a conservatism which appropriates the  suggestiveness of openness and portrays the left as a defensor of  closure. No progressive evolution of democracy will take place, perhaps  no successful defence against the present and ubiquitous  de-democratizing trends either, unless the progressive forces regain  their ability to tap that sense of openness which is crucial for  democracy and was reflected so effectively in the Rooseveltian New Deal.  Nota biogr&#225;fica Alessandro Ferrara, Professor of Political Philosophy  at the University of Rome &#34;Tor Vergata&#34; and currently serving as  President of the Italian Association for Political Philosophy, has  graduated in Philosophy in Italy (1975) and later, as a Harkness Fellow,  received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley  (1984). He has conducted post-doctoral research in Munich and Frankfurt  with J&#252;rgen Habermas as a Von Humboldt Fellow and later at Berkeley  again, leading to the publication of his first book Modernity and  Authenticity (1993).He has been an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of  Rome &#34;La Sapienza&#34; between 1984 and 1998, then an Associate Professor in  Sociology at the University of Parma between 1998 and 2002, and since  2002 is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome &#34;Tor  Vergata&#34;. Since 2007 he also teaches &#34;Multiculturalism and Theories of  Justice&#34; at the Universit&#224; Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan.Since 1991 he has been a Diretor of the Yearly Conference on Philosophy  and Social Science, initially part of the regular activities of the  Interuniversity Centre of Dubrovnik, but since 1993 relocated in Prague,  under the auspices of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy  of Science and later of Charles University. Since 1990 he has been a  founder and a Co-Director of the Seminario di Teoria Critica, which  meets yearly in Gallarate, Italy. And since 2007 he is on the Executive  Committee of the Istanbul Seminars on religion and politics, held at  Bilgi University in Istanbul under the auspices of the Association Reset  - Dialogues of Civilizations.He serves as editorial consultant on the board of a number of journals  including Constellations, Philosophy and Social Criticism and The  European Journal of Philosophy, and on the Advisory Board of the series  New Directions in Critical Theory at Columbia University Press.He has taught and lectured in various capacities in a number of  universities and institutions, including Harvard University, Columbia  University, Rice University, Cardozo Law School, The New School for  Social Research and the Universities of Berkeley, Madrid, Chicago,  Potsdam, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Exeter, Manchester.Selected publications:&#8226; The Force of the Example. Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment, New York, Columbia University Press, 2008.&#8226; The Uses of Judgment, special issue of Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 34, 1-2, 2008.&#8226; &#34;'Political' Cosmopolitanism and Judgment&#34;, in European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 10, n. 1, 2007, pp. 491-504.&#8226; &#34;Europe as a special area for human hope&#34;, in Constellations, 14:3, 2007, pp. 315-331.&#8226; &#34;Religion und posts&#228;kulare Vern&#252;nftigkeit&#34;, in Transit, vol. 31, 2006, pp. 5-25.26 de janeiro de 201216h00, CES-Lisboa, Picoas Plaza, Rua do Viriato 13, Lj. 117/118The Democratic Horizon Alessandro Ferrara (Universidade de Roma) Coment&#225;rio: David Alvarez (Universidade de Vigo) e Jo&#227;o Cardoso Rosas (CEHUM) Resumo 'The Political Philosophy Week' brings together researchers from inside  and outside CES in a productive dialogue over the normative foundations  of a democratic society. Through a partnership with the Centro de  Estudos Human&#237;sticos da Universidade de Minho and the PhD Programe &#34;Democracia no S&#233;culo XXI&#34;  of the Universidade de Coimbra, we bring to the interested public two  seminars and a book workshop in political philosophy, to be held in CES  Coimbra and CES Lisboa. 'The Political Philosophy Week' features as  key-note speakers Alessandro Ferrara from the Tor Vergata University in  Rome, Italy and Serdar Tekin from the Ege University in Izmir, Turkey. Notas biogr&#225;ficas Alessandro Ferrara, Professor of Political Philosophy  at the University of Rome &#34;Tor Vergata&#34; and currently serving as  President of the Italian Association for Political Philosophy, has  graduated in Philosophy in Italy (1975) and later, as a Harkness Fellow,  received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley  (1984). He has conducted post-doctoral research in Munich and Frankfurt  with J&#252;rgen Habermas as a Von Humboldt Fellow and later at Berkeley  again, leading to the publication of his first book Modernity and  Authenticity (1993). He has been an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of  Rome &#34;La Sapienza&#34; between 1984 and 1998, then an Associate Professor in  Sociology at the University of Parma between 1998 and 2002, and since  2002 is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome &#34;Tor  Vergata&#34;. Since 2007 he also teaches &#34;Multiculturalism and Theories of  Justice&#34; at the Universit&#224; Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan. Since 1991 he has been a Diretor of the Yearly Conference on Philosophy  and Social Science, initially part of the regular activities of the  Interuniversity Centre of Dubrovnik, but since 1993 relocated in Prague,  under the auspices of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy  of Science and later of Charles University. Since 1990 he has been a  founder and a Co-Director of the Seminario di Teoria Critica, which  meets yearly in Gallarate, Italy. And since 2007 he is on the Executive  Committee of the Istanbul Seminars on religion and politics, held at  Bilgi University in Istanbul under the auspices of the Association Reset  - Dialogues of Civilizations. He serves as editorial consultant on the board of a number of journals  including Constellations, Philosophy and Social Criticism and The  European Journal of Philosophy, and on the Advisory Board of the series  New Directions in Critical Theory at Columbia University Press. He has taught and lectured in various capacities in a number of  universities and institutions, including Harvard University, Columbia  University, Rice University, Cardozo Law School, The New School for  Social Research and the Universities of Berkeley, Madrid, Chicago,  Potsdam, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Exeter, Manchester. Selected publications: &#8226; The Force of the Example. Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment, New York, Columbia University Press, 2008. &#8226; The Uses of Judgment, special issue of Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 34, 1-2, 2008. &#8226; &#34;'Political' Cosmopolitanism and Judgment&#34;, in European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 10, n. 1, 2007, pp. 491-504. &#8226; &#34;Europe as a special area for human hope&#34;, in Constellations, 14:3, 2007, pp. 315-331. &#8226; &#34;Religion und posts&#228;kulare Vern&#252;nftigkeit&#34;, in Transit, vol. 31, 2006, pp. 5-25. David &#193;lvarez Garc&#237;a received his PhD from the  University of Santiago de Compostela. He has been a Fulbright  Postdoctoral Scholar at Yale (2007-2009) where he worked with Seyla  Benhabib on cosmopolitan citizenship, and with Thomas Pogge as a Fellow  of the Yale Global Justice Program (2009-2010) where he keeps a  Corresponding Fellow status. He currently holds a permanent position at  the University of Vigo. His main research interests are: Global Justice,  Cosmopolitan Citizenship, Global Health Justice and Regimes of  Toleration. He has recently published in Isegor&#237;a, Wiley-Blackwell  Encyclopedia of Political Thought and Springer Encyclopedia of Global  Justice. He also actively supports the Health Impact Fund (HIF) and  ASAP.org.Jo&#227;o Cardoso Rosas (BA and MA, University of Porto;  Ph.D. European University Institute - Florence) is Associate Professor  of Political Philosophy in the University of Minho and Visiting  Professor in the Institute of Political Studies and in ISCTE. He also  has been Michael Teague Visiting Professor at Brown University and  Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Social Justice -  University of Oxford. His research interests include contemporary  theories of justice, doctrinal pluralism, political truth and human  rights. His most recent books are Concep&#231;&#245;es da Justi&#231;a[Conceptions of  Justice], Edi&#231;&#245;es 70, 2011 and, with Roberto Merrill (eds.), &#201;tica,  Democracia e Tecnologia [Ethics, Democracy and Technology], Edi&#231;&#245;es  H&#250;mus, 2010. He belongs to the scientific council of the Portuguese  Philosophical Society and he is a member of the board of directors of  the Portuguese Society for Analytic Philosophy. Currently, he is  President of the Portuguese Political Science Association.  