Title: Some Aspects of the Current Debate on Religion in the Context of Western Modernity: John Rawls and Juergen Habermas

Lecturer: Prof. Herta Nagl-Docekal

Time: 9:30-11:30am, Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Venue: Moonlight Hall, Yingjie Exchange Center, PKU

Language: English, Chinese

Organized by: Beijing Forum, the PKU Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies

Admission ticket: free

Lecturer profile:

Herta Nagl-Docekal, University-Professor i.R., Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria; full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences; full member of International Institute of Philosophy, Paris. 2008-2013 she has been vice-president of FISP (Fédération Internationale des Socétés de Philosophie). Her main fields of research are: moral philosophy, philosophy of history, philosophy of religion, feminist theory. Selected books: Innere Freiheit. Grenzen der nachmetaphysischen Moralkonzeptionen (2014), Hegels Aesthetik als Theorie der Moderne (co-ed., 2013), Viele Religionen – eine Vernunft? Ein Disput zu Hegel (co-ed., 2008); Glauben und Wissen. Ein Symposium mit Juergen Habermas (co-ed., 2007), Continental Philosophy in Feminist Perspective (co-ed., 2000) .