[ecrea] CFP: Politics, Agonism and Deliberation: The Place of Conflict and Consensus in Contemporary Democracies (Sevilla, September 2013)

 Call for Papers


XI Conference Asociación Española de Ciencia Política

Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla

September 18-20, 2013


Workshop 1.7: Politics, Agonism and Deliberation: The Place of Conflict 
and Consensus in Contemporary Democracies


Convenor: Javier Franzé (Complutense University of Madrid)


Discussant: Máriam Martínez Ramírez (Autónoma University of Madrid)


Contemporary political theory praises liberal democracy both in its 
descriptive and normative sides. There is widespread consensus around 
the idea that context has totally transformed the place for democracy, 
but not its conclusions. We are likely to differentiate between two 
normative models of democracy, namely, either a liberal or enlightened 
one –Habermas, Rawls- or a postliberal one, being that critical to 
Enlightment tenets – Mouffe, Rancière-. The former considers that the 
core liberal values are still valid, in concrete concerning the 
possibility to resolve political conflicts in a dialogical way, although 
an adjustment to new contexts is much needed. The latter rejects such 
arguments, in that they are meant to be good for democracy because it 
entails a conflict and struggle for incommensurables values.

This workshop aims at clarifying the conceptual map and the various 
categories of each of the models to examine their contributions and 
limits. It welcomes papers analyzing concrete cases, in an attempt to 
test the explicative capacity of both paradigms.  Some of the inquiries 
this workshop poses are the following: It there any rationality 
permitting to overcome political differences or, otherwise, 
particularity is irreductable and universality means depolitization? Is 
language a communicative means or it is rather the only way actors have 
to build the world performatively? Is consensus the result of dialogical 
rationality or it is otherwise the consequence of certain struggle for 
values?

Paper proposals: 
http://aecpa.es/usuarios/usuario/cuenta/congress/papers/insert.php

Deadline: March 20

Further information: http://www.aecpa.es/presentacion/pages.41/





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