FRIDAY, April 21 AT 5 PM
Philosophy Lyceum: From Fraternity to Solidarity: Towards a Feminist Reconstruction
MTSU College of Education, Room 164
The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies is happy to welcome Professor Carol C. Gould for a Spring lecture open to the public.
Abstract:
Theorists and the public tend to use the terms “fraternity” and “solidarity” interchangeably. Yet, we can ask whether the model of fraternity--exemplified in the Three Musketeers and their slogan “All for one and one for all,” or in the bonds among members of a single nation, or in pernicious form in Ultranationalist or White Supremacist groups--can adequately characterize the sorts of transnational solidarities most needed today. Traditional understandings take solidarity to require not only standing with fellow group members or compatriots but also necessarily standing against, and even fighting, an “other.” Gould will argue that feminist approaches that highlight notions such as care, mutuality, empathy, and difference (as exemplified in some key examples of feminist activism) have much to contribute to an enriched conception of solidarity better suited to address core problems of contemporary societies, including entrenched inequalities and crossborder crises like climate change.
Carol C. Gould is Distinguished Professor in the Philosophy Department at Hunter College and in the Doctoral Programs in Philosophy and Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she also serves as Director of the Center for Global Ethics & Politics at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. She is Editor of the JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY.
Her many books include INTERACTIVE DEMOCRACY: THE SOCIAL ROOTS OF GLOBAL JUSTICE (winner of the 2015 Gittler Prize from the American Philosophical Association), GLOBALIZING DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS (winner of the 2009 David Easton Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association), and MARX'S SOCIAL ONTOLOGY: INDIVDUALITY AND COMMUNITY IN MARX'S THEORY OF SOCIAL REALITY which recently appeared in Chinese translation.
An informal reception will follow the presentation.
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