Organized by the Langages, Littératures, Sociétés Etudes Transfrontalières et Internationales (LLSETI) and the Association des professeurs de philosophie de l'enseignement public, the philosophical lecture series "Pour une Ethique de la discussion, enjeux démocratiques" kicks off this Wednesday, December 4 at 5pm with the theme "De la conversation à la discussion. Around Jurgen Habermas". This conference will take place in room 3, at the presidency of theuniversité Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB), in Chambéry. It is open to all, without registration.
About the conference
The idea that understanding the reasons for future catastrophes would enable us to act on the course of events assumes that this course is not fatal. It's this fatality that we're concerned with here: What is it that explains our inertia in the face of such a shared reality? Is it still possible to avoid catastrophe? Can we overturn the system that precipitates states, companies and individuals into generalized competition?
This system subjects everything to the commercial logic that turns sport into a business, culture into an industry and the human body into a product. It seems to overdetermine our behavior, trapping us in a dead-end logic that often vain gestures attempt to exorcise.
The aim is to analyze the coercive nature of this market system, which leads us to describe it as a "market order", and to understand its meaning by placing it in the context of other approaches in order to assess its inevitability.
Pascal Bouvier, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Université Savoie Mont Blanc.
About the cycle "Pour une Ethique de la discussion, enjeux démocratiques" (For an ethics of discussion, democratic issues)
We seem to have become powerless in the face of the generalized disruption of discussion, which we all too easily attribute to the deregulated media. We must never forget that our societies are still rife with affects that drive us to violence, the very ones Freud warned us about in his Malaise in Culture. At the same time, this derangement of discussion into inexhaustible combat, into "agonistics", is clearly detrimental to democratic debate. And the remedies against it cannot be based on the invocation of reason, or even truth, which remain powerless in political debate. Even if, against conspiracy and negativism, we must defend the facts and use reason, democratic debate is not based on the authority of truths, but on the pluralism of opinions, without which it cannot exist and must be defended. No doubt we need to promote a culture of democratic conflict and its normal play. We will seek to develop this hypothesis by looking at some of the fields that embody it.
LEARN MORE
- Program for the 2024-2025 philosophy lecture series
- LLSETI laboratory website
- Contact: Pascal Bouvier, member of the LLSETI laboratory and organizer of this conference series