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Wield the Word

The Barcelona Debate 2015

Seyla Benhabib

Wield the Word. Citizenship

Seyla Benhabib is a leading philosopher specialising in European social and political thought, feminist theory and the history of modern political theory. She is one of the most authoritative voices in the philosophical debate on difference. In this lecture she reflects on the instability of ...

Interview with Bo Stråth

Wield the Word.The Barcelona Debate 2015

Interview to Bo Stråth, Emeritus Professor of Nordic, European and World History at the University of Helsinki.

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Saskia Sassen

Wield the Word. Justice and Equality

Sassen explains the logic that dominates this new phase of capitalism, in which large numbers of people around the world have become superfluous and are pushed to the margins of society.

Interview with Axel Honneth

Wield the Word. The Barcelona Debate 2015

Interview to Axel Honneth,  philosopher and sociologist, director of the Institut für Sozialforschung  at the University of Frankfurt , and in charge of the opening lecture of the series "Wield the Word" - The 2015 Barcelona Debate

Axel Honneth

Wield the Word. Freedom

Axel Honneth is a philosopher and sociologist. A former assistant to Jürgen Habermas, he is presently deemed to be the most eminent figure of the so-called third generation of the Frankfurt School. His work is concerned with the problem of the struggle of the least prvileged groups for ...

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The Barcelona Debate is back

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Barcelona Debate the CCCB’s longest-running lecture series is about to begin once more to reflect, as it has done every other year, on some key aspect of contemporary life from a philosophical standpoint. Over the years, hundreds of philosophers, sociologists and writers have visited ...