The conference is composed of three sections and a public lecture by Axel Honneth. Section I ("Historical Perspectives") deals with the question what deliberations on markets classical authors like Adam Smith, G.W.F. Hegel, Karl Marx or John Stuart Mill have developed, and what systematic potential and future prospects these deliberations contain. Section II ("What are Markets?") explores the question of whether markets are constituted through specific kinds of trust, recognition or esteem - or not. Section III ("Critique of Markets") concentrates on the questions whether and how capitalistic markets can be criticized today.
February 13, 2014
1 p.m. - 1.45 p.m.: Opening
Presidency, Technische Universität Braunschweig
Faculty 6, Technische Universität Braunschweig
German Society of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy, Technische Universität Braunschweig
Section I: Historical Perspectives
1.45 p.m. - 3 p.m.: Heinz D. Kurz (Graz): Adam Smith on Markets and the 'Wretched Spirit of Monopoly'
3 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.: Coffee break
3.30 p.m. - 4.45 p.m.: Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch (Braunschweig): Hegels Philosophie des Marktes
Public Keynote Lecture
6.30 p.m. - 8 p.m.: Axel Honneth: Die Sittlichkeit des Marktes. Normative Grundlagen wirtschaftlichen Handelns
February 14, 2014
Section I: Historical Perspectives
9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.: Daniel Brudney (Chicago): Marx, Mill, and Tilting against the Market: Can Political Institutions have an Expressive Role?
10.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m.: Coffee break
10.45 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Michael Schefczyk (Lüneburg): 'Grounds different, but equally solid' - Zum Verhältnis wirtschaftlicher und gesellschaftlicher Freiheit bei J.S. Mill
Section II: What are Markets?
2 p.m. - 3.15 p.m.: Martin Hartmann (Luzern): Die unsichtbare Hand des Vertrauens. Eine Neubesichtigung des Adam-Smith-Problems
3.15 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.: Coffee break
3.30 p.m. - 4.45 p.m.: Simon Derpmann (Münster): Geld als Ware
4.45 p.m. - 5 p.m.: Coffee break
5 p.m. - 6.15 p.m.: Christopher F. Zurn (Boston): The Ends of Economic History: Alternative Teleologies and the Ambiguities of Normative Reconstruction
February 15, 2014
Section III: Critique of Marktes
9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.: Edward Skidelsky (Exeter): Prostitution and Corruption
10.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m.: Coffee break
10:45 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Emmanuel Renault (Paris): Marx's Theory of the Market and its Implications
12 p.m. - 1 p.m.: Lunch
1 p.m. - 2.15 p.m.: Michael Quante (Münster): Handlung, System der Bedürfnisse und Marktkritik bei Hegel und Marx
2.15 p.m. - 2.45 p.m.: Closing Remarks