Catherine Audard /  J. G. Finlayson

12.30 – 2.00pm | Thursday 11 March 2010
Room T206, Lakatos Building, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE

Speaker
Catherine Audard, Visiting Fellow, LSE and Chair of the Forum for European Philosophy; Département de philosophie, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
J. G. Finlayson, Senior Lecturer, University of Sussex and Director of the Centre for Social and Political Thought, University of Sussex

Catherine Audard and Gordon Finlayson discussed the political theories and ideas of Habermas and Rawls, arguably the two most influential political theorists of the 20th Century. They will discuss their famous exchange in 1995, and its legacy, and various other substantive and methodological issues that arise from a comparison of their work. They also examined the relevance of their respective ideas for the politics of today.