Events - International Consortium of Critical Theory

Between the Scholar and the Public Intellectual: The University in the Contemporary African Context

Visiting Scholars

May 10, 2017 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
220 Stephens Hall

Mahmood Mamdani
Director of Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University, Uganda

Mahmood Mamdani is Director of Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) at Makere University in Uganda. He received his Ph.D. in government from Harvard University. Mamdani is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Department of Anthropology and Political Science and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where he was also […]

To Be the Owner of My Own Person: Toward a Concept of Freedom as Heteronomy Without Servitude

Visiting Scholars

February 28, 2017 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
220 Stephens Hall

Vladimir Safatle
Professor and Director of Research, Department of Philosophy and Institute of Psychology, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Today autonomy, defined as self-legislation and self-determination, appears to be a precondition of freedom. Autonomy is widely accepted as the normative horizon of claims for social emancipation and psychological maturity. Nevertheless, this understanding of autonomy depends on a fundamental metaphysical presupposition that must be submitted to criticism. This presupposition follows from the belief that the […]