Maurice Fraser/ Polly Toynbee/ Kristina Musholt
Tuesday 20 November 2012, 6.30-8.00pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
Maurice Fraser, Senior Fellow in European Politics, European Institute, LSE
Polly Toynbee, journalist and writer. She has been a columnist forThe Guardian since 1998
Chair: Kristina Musholt, LSE Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method and Deputy Director of the Forum for European Philosophy
‘Progressive’ is a slippery term. Right (i.e. Left)-thinking people use it with casual abandon, to confer moral approval on a set of values which they regard as uncontroversial. But on close examination the meaning of the term appears contingent, historically specific and contestable. Who is to say what is ‘progressive’? Is it time to rescue it from political correctness? And can the Right lay at least as compelling a claim to it as the Left?
