Worshop en histoire de la philosophie et histoire des idées politiques “Hobbes-Bentham: International Political Theory and Political Economy in Perspective” dans le cadre du congrès MANCEPT

Argumentaire :

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) are usually portrayed as two central philosophers of the British modern political and legal thought. Since David Armitage’s Foundations of Modern International Thought, they also appear as leading figures in the making of the modern international political thought. In this new intellectual history, the couple “Hobbes-Bentham” not only delimits chronologically the formation period of the modern international political thought (1629-1832), but refers to their special role as major theorists in conducting central developments to the later international thought as they are strongly associated to the development of modern capitalism and liberalism.

The aim of this workshop is to query the formation of the modern international political thought between Hobbes and Bentham on basis of the following idea: What sort of relations, developments, connections, continuities and ruptures take place in the fields of political economy and international theory in the time period that stretches between intellectually active periods of Thomas Hobbes (from 1629 onwards) and Jeremy Bentham (1832)? We ask, for example, what sort of relations can we see between the conceptualizations of property rights and free markets? Is there a continuity on the conceptualization of sovereign state, war, colonization and expansion? How far do the thinkers of this period develop their critic against empire? How do they think about economic interactions and interdependence in the aftermath of the birth of the Westphalian world?

This workshop aims to clarify, explicit and answer to these and several other fundamental questions concerning the relations between political economy and international theory in the given time period in the domains of history of philosophy, history of political thought, history of economic and international thought. Here is a non-exhaustive list of themes that present some of the questions and concepts desired for this workshop:

_ political economy, wealth, commerce

_ property rights, land, market regulation, taxes

_ colonies, conquest, expansion

_ borders, foreigners, outsiders

_ critics of empire, British empire

_ international theory, laws of nations, international law

_ theories of sovereignty, state theory, state as moral person

_ war, peace

_ international treaties and politics

_ interactions, interdependence between States

_ diplomacy and international politics

Each paper will attribute 50 minutes. The format will be 35 minutes presentation for each paper followed by 15 minutes of questions and discussion.

Papers proposal of maximum 1000 words should be sent by June 10^th, 2018.

The organizers of the workshop cannot provide any financial support for speakers.

This Workshop is part of the 14^th Annual Congress of Political Theory and Political Philosophy organized at Manchester from 11^th to 13^th September at the Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester (For more information, see: http://www.mancept.com/mancept-workshops/ ).

ORGANIZERS:

Benjamin Bourcier, Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Université Catholique de Lille (France).

Mikko Jakonen, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Policy, University of Jyväskylä (Finland)

Email :

benjamin.bourcier at univ-catholille.fr

mikko.p.jakonen at jyu.fi

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