Organisé par le laboratoire Langages, Littératures, Sociétés Etudes Transfrontalières et Internationales (LLSETI) de l’USMB et l’Association des professeurs de philosophie de l’enseignement public, le cycle de conférences philosophiques “Pour une Ethique de la discussion, enjeux démocratiques” se poursuit ce mercredi 14 mai à 17h avec le thème “La démocratie à l’épreuve de la discussion”. Cette conférence aura lieu en salle 3, à la présidence de l’université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB), à Chambéry. Elle est ouverte à tous et sans inscription.
About the conference
The aim of the session, once all the fields have been covered, would be to resume the discussion on the theme of democracy put to the test of discussion.
This conference will be hosted by [details of speaker to follow].
A propos du cycle “Pour une Ethique de la discussion, enjeux démocratiques”
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 discussion 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 Bouviermember of the LLSETI laboratory and organizer of this conference series