{"id":955,"date":"2014-09-20T14:23:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T18:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=955"},"modified":"2014-09-20T14:25:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T18:25:28","slug":"fall-2014-theory-reading-group","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/event\/fall-2014-theory-reading-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Student-Faculty Theory Reading Group convening this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Student-Faculty Theory Reading Group<\/strong> will have its first meeting of the semester on <strong>Tuesday, September 23rd, from 11:00am &#8211; 12:00pm in Anderson 1006<\/strong>. The reading for the first meeting, <a href=\"http:\/\/boundary2.dukejournals.org\/content\/41\/2\/71.full.pdf+html\">Susan Buck-Morss&#8217; &#8220;Democracy: An Unfinished Project&#8221;<\/a>, has been distributed via the graduate student listserv.\u00a0New and returning members are welcome to join the group for what is sure to be an engaging semester of thinking and discussion. Contact <a href=\"mailto:%20colleen.kropp@gmail.com\">Colleen Kropp<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Democracy: An Unfinished Project&#8221; abstract:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This essay criticizes Ahmet Davuto\u011flu\u2019s proposal that Islamic civilization complete the \u201cunfinished project of modernity\u201d (J\u00fcrgen Habermas), by challenging the concept of civilization itself. As scholars in multiple disciplines have demonstrated, civilizations are hybrid constructions that cannot be contained within a uniform conceptual frame, such as Islamic \u201cauthenticity.\u201d The past is shared, and the present is as well. The Arab Spring demonstrates that modernity confronts political actors with similar problems, whatever their background. The essay addresses successive paradoxes within the unfinished project of democracy: the contradiction between free markets (capitalist inequality) and free societies (political equality), the hierarchical relationship between the people and their leaders (Jacques Ranci\u00e9re\u2019s Ignorant Schoolmaster is discussed), and the lack of democracy between nations within the present world order.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Student-Faculty Theory Reading Group will have its first meeting of the semester on Tuesday, September 23rd, from 11:00am &#8211; 12:00pm in Anderson 1006. The reading for the first meeting, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/event\/fall-2014-theory-reading-group\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Student-Faculty Theory Reading Group convening this week<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1417,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[9],"class_list":["post-955","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-englishevents","cat_englishevents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}