As
part of the celebrations of the 650th Anniversary of the founding of the
College, the 2002 Boutwood Lectures will be given by Roberto Mangabeira
Unger, Professor of Law, Harvard University.
Professor Unger will deliver two lectures on “The Second Way: Why we
need an alternative to the present consensus and what the alternative
is.” The lectures will be followed by a panel discussion, in which
Professor Unger will participate.
The two lectures will take place on Monday 21st and Tuesday 22nd January
2002, in the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Cambridge at 5.00 p.m.
On Wednesday the 23rd January 2002, a Panel Discussion will be held in
the McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College at 5.00pm. The
panelists will be John Dunn, Raymond Geuss, Geoffrey Hawthorn and
Quentin Skinner. The discussion will be chaired by Michael Tanner.
The Lectures and Panel Discussion are open to all members of the
University and all others who may be interested.
Professor Unger provides this introduction to his lectures:
“The Second Way (in Politics and Political economy): Why we need an
alternative to the present consensus and what the alternative is.
The title alludes polemically to “the third way,” which I take to be the
first way with sugar, the humanisation of the supposedly inevitable,
emerging form of “Globalisation,” under the auspices of the United
States.
I have left the subtitle ambiguous in two crucial respects. It is
ambiguous as to what the consensus is about. I shall argue that the
consensus is about much more than the marriage of European social
democracy with an American-style market economy. The subtitle is also
ambiguous as to whether the alternative is a different consensus or an
invitation to greater dissensus. I shall claim it is both.”
Lecture 1. Why European social democracy is not good enough, and what
should follow it.
Lecture 2. How a progressive alternative to European social democracy
may require and enable us to change how we think and live.
Travel Arrangements
Details of travel to Cambridge, and the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms are on
the University Website
http://www.cam.ac.uk/. Click on “Visitors,” select “Silver Street &
Mill Lane site”, take option 12 which will give you details of the
Lecture Rooms. For the discussion, the McCrum Lecture Theatre is
accessed through the cobbled yard of the famous "Eagle" pub, in Benet
Street, only a few hundred metres from Mill Lane. Please enquire at the
Porters’ Lodge of Corpus Christi College if you are unsure of the venue.
