January 8
“Critique of Reification without a Critique of Fetishism?
Habermas, Honneth and the Aims of Critical Theory”
Anita Chari, PoliSci @ The University of Chicago

January 15
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: No Session

January 22
“Owning Political Violence”
Nomi Claire Lazar, Society of Fellows @ The University of Chicago

January 29
“Tocqueville on National Pride”
Ewa Atanassow, Social Thought @ The University of Chicago

February 5
“The Psychological Dynamics of Personal Obligation and Political Authority”
Nancy Luxon, Society of Fellows @ The University of Chicago

February 12
“Protofeminist Responses to the Federalist-Antifederalist Debate”
Eileen Hunt Botting, PoliSci @ The University of Notre Dame

February 19
“State of Exception”
David Dyzenhaus, Law @ The University of Toronto

February 26
“Liberal Nationalism and teh Neoliberal Concept of Spontaneous Order”
Edwige Kacenelenbogen, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

March 5
“Realism versus Constructivism in Critical Social Theory”
Maeve Cooke, Philosophy @ University College Dublin