Michael Mack

6.30-8pm | Thursday 28 February 2008
Room J116 (Cowdray House, LSE)

Speaker
Michael Mack, Theology and Religious Studies Department, University of Nottingham

In these talks, Michael Mack, from the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at University of Nottingham, uncovers visions of European modernity that embrace rather than reject cultural diversity and plurality of nature. In the first talk he discusses how Spinoza’s notion of self-preservation encloses in itself the blueprint for a cooperative conception of society. Spinoza emerges as a thinker who offers an alternative to narrowly rationalist and anti-naturalist Cartesian and Kantian understandings of modernity.