Power: when the notion of limits is lost
Saturday, 29 October 2022
10:00 h
Between the limits of power and the defects of democracy, politics navigates around the world, searching for its economic, technological and cultural accents. The spectacle is varied and often painful. Ideas are usually scarce in absolute figures and almost nil when it comes to the organization and administration of nations and peoples in the scenario that interests citizens. Philosophy, anthropology and self-styled political science study the phenomenon of power from different drawers of the great academic closet. But not trying to contrast and even mix its content can be a mistake, if it is about improving the mistake, that "bad encounter" that La Boétie placed in the most original root of the city and the civil power. This session will try to find examples and ask some questions about the limits of power.
SPEAKERS
- Domingo García-Marzá, Professor of Ethics at Jaume I University, director of the Department of Philosophy and Sociology and director of the "Applied Ethics and Democracy" research group.
- Eva Anduiza, Professor of Political Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ICREA researcher Academy and director of the research group “Democracy, Elections and Citizenship”.
- Águeda Quiroga, anthropologist and public policy expert, founder of Philosoc.
- Jaume Casals, philosopher, rector of Pompeu Fabra University (2013/2021) and Professor of Philosophy at the UPF Department of Humanities.
