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LEUSL2202 - Political philosophy and the European Union • [2 Q. • 30 Th.] |
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LACROIX Justine
,VAN PARIJS Philippe
,DESCHUTTER Helder
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Political philosophy has traditionally focused on the nation-state, in particular on how its collective decisions should be taken to qualify as democratic, and on how its institutions should be designed to count as just. More recently, political philosophy has resolutely expanded its focus: it started asking, for example, whether global governance should be a macroscopic replica of domestic government, and whether global justice is to be conceived as inter-national justice or as social justice writ large. But what about this intermediate entity of an unprecedented nature that is now called the European Union? What can be said about it from a normative point of view? What are the principles that should determine how much power its institutions are to be given, how these should be designed, and what the scope and content of their policies should be?
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After a general overview of the subject characterized in this way, the course will focus every year on a specific aspect of it. This year, it will deal with language issues. What should be the language policies of the EU and the member states? What rules should govern the linguistic aspect of the operation of the EU's institutions? Must a lingua franca be promoted? Must linguistic equality be enforced? If deviation from equality is allowed, what compensation, if any, is owed to the EU citizens whose language is denied a privileged status? The discussion of these questions will be largely based on Ph. Van Parijs, Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World (Oxford University Press, 2011, forthcoming), the final draft of which will be made available to the students.
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We aim for a lively and creative seminar. To enable this, students are expected to participate actively, by giving presentations and taking part in discussions. They will have to write a paper (about 5000 words), which will be the main basis for evaluation. In this paper, they must work out and defend a normative position in a (clearly demarcated) discussion. This position can be a critique or defence of either (i) a solution to a specific problem, or (ii) a particular theoretical stance.
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travail |
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Programme
17/02/11 General Introduction + Presentation by Justine Lacroix on the political philosophy of the European Union
24/02/11 Presentations by Helder De Schutter and Luuk van Middelaar (cabinet of the President of the Council of the European Union) on the political philosophy of the European Union
03/03/11 Presentation by Philippe Van Parijs on the political philosophy of the European Union and by Flavia Frangini (European Commission, Unit for Multilingualism, author of the report Lingua Franca, February 2011) on current issues in EU language policy
10/03/11 Chapter 1: Lingua Franca
17/03/11 Chapter 2: Linguistic Justice as Faire Cooperation
24/03/11 Chapter 3: Linguistic Justice as Equal Opportunity
31/03/11 Chapter 4: Linguistic Justice as Parity of Esteem
07/04/11 Chapter 5: Linguistic Territoriality
28/04/11 Chapter 6: Linguistic Diversity
05/05/11 Conclusion, with the participation of Yael Peled (Universities of Oxford and Montreal, Hoover Fellow)
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