The Late Frankfurt School and The Knowledge Society

Conference arranged by Center of Market Economics, Copenhagen University, The Goethe Institute, The Research School PHIS, Philosophical Forum and habermasforum.dk.

Friday, November 19, 2004 - 09:45 to 15:00

Conference on the late frankfurt School and the knowledge society.

The conference is organized by associate professor Anders Bordum and Sigurd Lauridsen in cooperation with CME Copenhagen Business School, Department of Medical Philosophy and Clinical Theory Copenhagen University, The Goethe Institute in Copenhagen, The Research School PHIS, Philosophical Forum, and

www.habermasforum.dk.

Conference Program

9.45-10.00 Registration

10.00 Welcome

Director of the Goethe Institute & The Conference Organizers

10.15 Gorm Harste

Democracy and Complexity – Habermas’ Discourse Ethics in the Organized Communication

10.45 Heine Andersen

Habermas: Critical Reason and The Public

Break: (15 minutes)

11.30 Sigurd Lauridsen

The Discourse Ethics – Between Distributive Justice and Legitimacy

12.00-13.00 Lunch break (A Light Lunch is Sponsored by The Goethe Institute!)

13.00 Anders Bordum

Knowledge in a Habermasian Framework

13.30 Rasmus Willig

The Paradox of Criticism in the Service of Capitalism Break: (15 min.)

13.45 Mats Alvesson

A Critical Perspective on The Knowledge Society

14.25 Panel Discussion:

Speakers

Gorm Harste Associate professor Aarhus University

Heine Andersen Professor University of Copenhagen

Sigurd Lauridsen University of Copenhagen

Anders Bordum CME, CBS, Copenhagen Business School

Rasmus Willig Ph.D. Roskilde University

Mats Alvesson Professor Lund University

Participation is free for researchers, students and otherwise interested if you sign up before nov.10th by sending an email containing your name, institution, address and email to CME:

imr.cme@cbs.dk

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