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Friday, August 23, 2019

Robert Talisse, Overdoing Democracy

Our Fall Lyceum speaker...

The Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies is pleased to welcome Professor Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt University) for a Fall Applied Philosophy Lyceum, "Overdoing Democracy: The Problem of Political Polarization."

In this talk, Talisse will argue that polarization is a result of the near total infiltration of political allegiances and identities into our social lives. Today, our everyday activities are increasingly fused with our political profiles: commercial spaces, workplaces, professions, schools, churches, sports teams, and even public parks now tend to embody a particular political valence. When politics is permitted to saturate our social environments, he argues, we impair the capacities we need in order to enact democracy well. In a slogan, when we overdo democracy in this way, we undermine it. The solution is to build venues and activities where people can engage in cooperative activities together in which their political identities are neither bolstered nor suppressed, but simply beside the point. For Talisse, if we want to do democracy well, we need to put politics in its right place.

Robert Talisse is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Vanderbilt University. His most recent book is Overdoing Democracy, Oxford (2019). Some others include, Pluralism and Liberal Politics, Routledge (2012), Reasonable Atheism (with Scott Aikin), Prometheus (2011), A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy, Routledge (2007), and Democracy After Liberalism, Routledge (2005).

The Lecture will take place Friday, October 4 at 5 PM in Room 160, College of Education.

An informal reception will follow the presentation.

For further information, contact the Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies at 615-898-2907.

Robert Talisse (@RobertTalisse)
Just received the final full cover of OVERDOING DEMOCRACY, which publishes with ⁦‪@OUPPhilosophy‬⁩ in a little over a month.

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