Wield the Word
The Barcelona Debate 2015
Seyla Benhabib
Wield the Word. Citizenship
Seyla Benhabib is a leading philosopher specialising in European social and political thought, feminist theory and the history of modern political theory. She is one of the most authoritative voices in the philosophical debate on difference. In this lecture she reflects on the instability of ...
Peter Wagner: “The mechanism of domination and resistance to domination is what brought about progress”
Centre Documentació i Debat
Barcelona Debate 2015 is about to end with the lecture that will be given by the sociologist Peter Wagner, who will situate the concepts of “progress” and “modernity” within the framework of today’s political vocabulary and propose new readings and perspectives in order to update their meanings. In your lecture on 9 March you will [...]
Interview with Bo Stråth
Wield the Word.The Barcelona Debate 2015
Interview to Bo Stråth, Emeritus Professor of Nordic, European and World History at the University of Helsinki.
Wield the Word. Individual and community
Round table with F. Birulés, I. Gresser, A. Lladó & M. Ollé
Saskia Sassen
Wield the Word. Justice and Equality
Sassen explains the logic that dominates this new phase of capitalism, in which large numbers of people around the world have become superfluous and are pushed to the margins of society.
Interview with Axel Honneth
Wield the Word. The Barcelona Debate 2015
Interview to Axel Honneth, philosopher and sociologist, director of the Institut für Sozialforschung at the University of Frankfurt , and in charge of the opening lecture of the series "Wield the Word" - The 2015 Barcelona Debate
Axel Honneth
Wield the Word. Freedom
Axel Honneth is a philosopher and sociologist. A former assistant to Jürgen Habermas, he is presently deemed to be the most eminent figure of the so-called third generation of the Frankfurt School. His work is concerned with the problem of the struggle of the least prvileged groups for ...
The Barcelona Debate is back
Centre Documentació i Debat
Barcelona Debate the CCCB’s longest-running lecture series is about to begin once more to reflect, as it has done every other year, on some key aspect of contemporary life from a philosophical standpoint. Over the years, hundreds of philosophers, sociologists and writers have visited ...
