KFG Lecture Series with Till van Rahden (Montréal)
Universalism and Its Discontents: Toward A Provincialized History of Political Thought in Europe
07.07.2025
LMU Center for Advanced Studies, Seestraße 13, Munich
Lecture Series “Europe's History of the Present: Universalism and Particularism”
The KFG Lecture Series continues in cooperation with the LMU Center for Advanced Studies with its next session on Monday, July 7, 2025, with a lecture by Senior Fellow Till van Rahden on "Universalism and Its Discontents: Toward A Provincialized History of Political Thought in Europe".
Till van Rahden is a Full Professor of German and European Studies at the Université de Montréal where he held a Canada Research Chair from 2006 to 2016. He is also a Research Professor at Carleton University and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften in Bad Homburg. He specializes in European history since the Enlightenment and is interested in the tension between the elusive promise of democratic equality and the recurrent presence of cultural differences and moral conflicts. His publications include: Jews and other Germans: Civil Society, Religious Diversity and Urban Politics in Breslau, 1860-1925 (The University of Wisconsin Press, 2008); Demokratie: Eine gefährdete Lebensform (Campus, 2019); Vielheit: Jüdische Geschichte und die Ambivalenzen des Universalismus (Hamburger Edition, 2022), as well as seven co-edited volumes, most recently (with Johannes Voelz) Horizonte der Demokratie: Offene Lebensformen nach Walt Whitman (transcript, 2024).
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