April 2009

Introduction

In the wave of response to the Critical Philosophy, it was Hegel who produced the most ambitious and interesting take on Kant’s theoretical philosophy. Indeed, such was the grand nature of his project that naturally “as a thinker who suffered more than most from superficial criticism, Hegel was right to think that others would find it easier to attack him than to take trouble to understand him fully.”

Registration open as of 13th May 2009

Jordi Ferrer (University of Girona, Spain) is organizing a congress celebrating the 50th volume of the series “Philosophy and Law”, published by Marcial Pons, which Jordi co-edits together with Professor José Juan Moreso (University “Pompeu Fabra”, Barcelona). The website of the congress is
http://www.filosofiayderecho.es/congreso/en/index.html

Critical Legal Conference 2009
University of Leicester, UK - September 11-13
Call for papers to the stream
‘Genealogy of Human Rights from a Third-World Perspective’

What can be said from the standing point of the Third World about the modern history of human rights?