PHILOSOPHY AND THE POLITICAL SPACE
A Topological Approach to Politics and Democracy from Polis to Cosmopolis
(National R & D PLAN, Spain; Ref.: FFI2012-31640)

 

 

 

 

Madrid, March 13, 2014 (IFS - UNED)

- IMAGINING THE POLITICAL SPACE -

I- The spatial categories of politics

  1. Political topography: the use of spatial coordinates in political language and imagination, João Cardoso Rosas (Univ. Do Minho, Portugal)
  2. Space as a social practice. An approach to the 'spatial turn' through the work of Henri Lefebvre, Juan García-Morán (UNED)
  3. The political territory: the spaces of the Demos, Francisco Colom (Instituto de Filosofía, CSIC)
  4. Borders, chance and justice, Juan Carlos Velasco (Instituto de Filosofía, CSIC)
  5. Space and political obligation: from Polis to Cosmopolis, José Mª Hernández (UNED)

II- Territory and the political imagination

  1. Politics as a space for the 'Human Conversation': from classical Antiquity to Early Modernity, Ángel Rivero (Univ. Autónoma de Madrid)
  2. East and West as imaginaries of political space, Guillermo Graíño (Collegio