The Centre for Modern Thought

If a description of the real political is at issue, then our gamble is in favour of a notion of reality that remains attuned to subaltern experience.  Our fifth project will be ongoing and will last for as long as the Political Thought track at the Aberdeen Centre for Modern Thought lasts: New Paths in Political Philosophy will track contemporary analytic and theoretical developments.  A first workshop, to be held at State University of New York at Buffalo in March 2008, will concentrate on the thought of Giuseppe Duso, Roberto Esposito, Carlo Galli, and Jose Luis Villacanas.  The contributions of conceptual history to investigate the demise of the modern categories of the political, the contemporary rise of biopower, and a genealogy of nomic orders will be the main foci of this workshop.  A second workshop will be held at Aberdeen in 2009.