O Grupo de Teoria Política da Universidade do Minho está recebendo inscrições para a conferência sobre o livro de Alan Thomas (York), a ser lançado no próximo semestre, intitulado Republic of Equals: Predistribution and Property-Owing Democracy (Oxford, 2016). Ao lado de teóricos como Martin O'Neil (York) e Stuart White (Oxford), Thomas tem se dedicado a reformular a teoria igualitária a partir dos impactos que a nova economia da desigualdade (e. g. Atkinson, Piketty e Saez) tiveram para o nosso entendimento dos padrões de acumulação de capital nas sociedades democráticas. Uma prévia dos argumentos do livro podem ser encontrados no artigo Rawls, Piketty and the New Inequality de 2016 (ver também o perfil de Thomas na plataforma Academia.edu na qual o autor disponibilizou um rascunho do livro).
O evento ocorrerá no dia 24 de outubro e os resumos podem ser submetidos até 24 de agosto.
Conference on Republic of Equals: Predistribution and Property-owning Democracy
When: 24 October 2016
Where: University of Minho, Braga (Portugal)
This conference will discuss some of the central themes of Alan Thomas’s book Republic of Equals: Predistribution and Property-owning Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Possible topics for submissions include:
- the relationship between liberal and republican traditions in political thought;
- whether political philosophy can address the ‘New Inequality’ in affluent Western Societies from the 1970s to the present day;
- whether a property-owning democracy is a realistic utopian ideal;
- whether processes of globalisation constrain egalitarian projects;
- the contrast between property-owning democracy and welfare state capitalism;
- the relationship between property-owning democracy and market socialism;
- the relationship between capitalist forms of economic organization and oligarchic forms of governance.
- the relationship between predistribution and redistribution;
- the relationship between basic income and reciprocity,
Abstracts of between 300 to 500 words on any of these topics (or related topics) should be submitted to Roberto Merrill (nrbmerrill@gmail.com) by August 25.
Notification of acceptance: September 1.
It is anticipated that presentations at the conference will be 20 minutes long with 20 minutes reserved for discussion.
NB: The book may be out by the time of the conference (the current plan is October) but Professor Alan Thomas will certainly have the page proofs with correct pagination, which will be available for participants.
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Participation fee: 20 euros
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This event is organized by the Political Theory Group of CEHUM, University of Minho (Braga),
