International Workshop

Some scholars argue that continuities in intellectual history can only be discerned when adopting a longer perspective. Others stress local and situational power structures when examining intellectual currents in spatial and temporal dimensions. There remains the question of the role traditional categories should play in research on political thought across cultural divides.

This workshop compares cultural systems, sources, and ideas. Regarding cultures, we ask: what can be gleaned from moral instruction about cultural differences in the composition of the actors who defined the dynamics between political-religious authority and legal structures? Regarding sources, we enquire: what do processes of transfer and translation reveal about the trajectories of (re)sources in political thought? Regarding ideas, we investigate: how are they communicated, applied and transformed in political advice, and what are the processes in different cultural contexts? We promote an understanding across national boundaries of terminologies and relate political thought to new work that prompts dynamic questions such as how political advice happened as a process.

More Information:https://www.uni-muenster.de/EViR/veranstaltungen/tagungenundworkshops/cultures.html

Registration:https://wwuindico.uni-muenster.de/event/1783/

Organisation: Dr. Sophia Mösch (Käte Hamburger Kolleg Münster „Einheit und Vielfalt im Recht“)

Contact: smoesch@uni-muenster.de