Glasgow Gifford Lectures 2018: Judith Butler
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Location
Bute Hall
University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ United KingdomDescription
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(you may have followed a mistaken link): the spring 2019 lecture (Kevin Hart) can be found: here
Note: the current initial allocation of tickets has been exhausted, as has the second allocation for the larger venue. And the third allocation for the reconfigured larger venue (Bute Hall). Even our waiting-list is full to capacity. All of the tickets are gone.
Note: Because we are now using a reconfigured venue with a larger capacity, we have had to push back the start time of the lectures. They now start at 18:30 on each evening.
Tickets are for the whole series of three lectures.
Judith Butler on Inequality and the Philosophy of Non-Violence
Abstract: ‘What does inequality have to do with non-violence?’ These lectures will suggest that a philosophy of non-violence has to take into account forms of inequality that value certain lives more highly than others. So the task is to develop a philosophy of non-violence that allows the moral questions usually associated with non-violent practice to be seen as bearing on questions of political inequality as well. The purpose would be to show that the defence of non-violence cannot be successful if it does not take this kind of differential valuing of life into account, which means that a philosophy of non-violence is only possible within a broader commitment to equality. These questions bear as well on the concepts of grievable and ungrievable life that Professor Butler has developed elsewhere as well as a conception of livable life at work in her critique of precarity.
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This series of lectures is organised by the Gifford bequest committee at the University of Glasgow. The Gifford Lectures are an annual series of lectures which were established in 1887 by the will of Adam Lord Gifford. The endowment supports lecture series at the universities of Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and St Andrews. A list of all lectures delivered at the four universities can be found here.
According to Lord Gifford's will, the object was to found 'a lectureship or popular chair for promoting, advancing, teaching, and diffusing the study of natural theology, in the widest sense of that term, in other words, the knowledge of God', and 'of the foundation of ethics'. The first series of lectures on Natural, Physical, Anthropological and Psychological Religion or Theosophy was delivered at Glasgow by Friedrich Max Müller between 1888-1892.