Tagung:
Normativities, Tensions and Paradox

November 2, 2006

10:00-13:00 Session 1

Opening remarks by Axel Honneth

Laurent Thévenot (GSPM): Economics and politics getting close to the person: resulting tensions in the constituting of the community and the personality
Comment: Hermann Kocyba (IfS)

Luc Boltanski (GSPM): Common sense and critique
Comment: Axel Honneth (IfS)

13:00-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-16:30 Session 2

Frédéric Keck (GSPM): Structural and phenomenological concepts of historical contradictions
Comment: Olivier Voirol (IfS)

Danny Trom (GSPM): Criticism and the question of history
Comment: Robin Celikates (University of Gießen)

16:30
Discussion (Sessions 1 and 2)

November 3, 2006

9:30-12:30 Session 3

Mauro Basaure (IfS): Equivalence and recognition. A research proposal on moral sociology

Ferdinand Sutterlüty (IfS): The belief in ethnic kinship: a deep symbolic dimension of social inequality

Kai-Olaf Maiwald (IfS): The exchange of freedom for chores. New perspectives on the persistence of gender inequality in couple relationships

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:00 Session 4

Kai Dröge (IfS): The contested achievement principle. Interpretation conflicts about the legitimations of social inequality

15:00
Discussion (Sessions 3 and 4)

16:30
Axel Honneth, Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot:
Perspectives for a future cooperation

Supported by the "Centre interdisciplinaire d'études et de recherches sur l'Allemagne" (CIERA) and the "Centre Marc Bloch" in Berlin