Life in an Age of Theocracy on the March Event
- Time:
- 18:00 - 19:30
- Date:
- 18 February 2015
- Venue:
- Building 58 Room 1067
Event details
Human history is full of surprises. In 1989, one had decent reason to believe that the age of totalitarian ideologies was definitively over (or at least that it would be banished for many generations).
Who would have expected a new totalitarian ideology to be a significant global player so soon? And who on earth would have predicted that ancient theocracy of all things would come to define the core of this new ideology? The purpose of this lecture is to sketch an account of what it means to be normatively committed to a secularist vision of social and political order, against the backdrop of a virtually relentless cascade of bad news associated with the challenges posed by toxic versions of theocracy.
Speaker information
Ronnie Beiner,University of Toronto,Professor of Political Science