The Holberg Prize

Holberg Prize Symposium 2006: Processes that cha...

Holberg Prize Symposium 2006: Processes that cha...

Equality in Ideal Moral Theory and Real Politica...

Peter Koller's lecture at the Holberg Prize Symposium 2007. The Symposium was in honor of Holberg Prize laureate 2007 Ronald Dworkin. Peter Koller is Professor of Legal and Social Philosophy at the University of Graz. The central emphasis of his research is problems of political theory, such as the analysis of political terms and ideas and the normative assessment of social institutions and relations, focusing in particular on questions of social justice, political freedom and social equality,...

Religion, Dignity and the Secular State

Rainer Forst's lecture at the Holberg Prize Symposium 2007. The Symposium was in honor of Holberg Prize laureate 2007 Ronald Dworkin. Rainer Forst is Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University of Frankfurt. He specializes in political and moral philosophy and democratic theory. Among his publications are Contexts of Justice (University of California Press, 2002), Toleranz im Konflikt (Suhrkamp, 2003; engl. transl. forthcoming with Cambridge University Pre...

Equality of Respect and Hate Speech

Rebecca Brown's lecture at the Holberg Prize Symposium 2007. The Symposium was in honor of Holberg Prize laureate 2007 Ronald Dworkin. Rebecca Brown is Allen Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University, where she teaches courses in constitutional law and theory. Her scholarship sets forth a vision of the U.S. Constitution premised on individual liberty, and explores the relationship between liberty and equality under the Constitution. In recognition of this work, she received the Association of ...

Objectivity

Thomas Nagel's lecture at the Holberg Prize Symposium 2007. The Symposium was in honor of Holberg Prize laureate 2007 Ronald Dworkin. Thomas Nagel is Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy. He specializes in Political Philosophy, Ethics, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Mind. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the British Academy, and has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the National Endowment fo...

Law and Political Morality

Lecture by Ronald Dworkin at the Holberg Prize Symposium 2007. Ronald Dworkin was the Holberg Prize 2007 laureate. The Symposium was held in his honor. Ronald Dworkin is widely regarded as the leading living figure in legal philosophy and also among the few leading figures in political philosophy. He is also a public intellectual as well as an academic philosopher and has written controversial and influential articles on matters of public political controversy for many years, particularly in T...

Justice in Robes: Integrity and the Rule of Law

Jeremy Waldron's lecture at the Holberg Prize Symposium 2007. The Symposium was in honor of Holberg Prize laureate 2007 Ronald Dworkin. Jeremy Waldron is University Professor at New York University School of Law, and teaches legal and political philosophy. Professor Waldron has written and published extensively in jurisprudence and political theory. He is the author of Law and Disagreement (Oxford 1999) and God, Locke and Equality (Cambridge 2002). His books and articles on theories of rights,...

Modernity and Barbarism: Georg Klein

Georg Klein's talk from the 2006 Holberg Prize Symposium. The symposium was held in honor of Holberg Prize laureate 2006 Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Eisenstadt has been making important contributions to social theory for more than 50 years. He combines sociological theory with historical and empirical research in his studies of modernity and civilisations, and has had great influence in sociology, political science, history, relig...

Contemporary Modernities and their Civilizationa...

Luis Roniger's talk from the 2006 Holberg Prize Symposium. The symposium was held in honor of Holberg Prize laureate 2006 Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Eisenstadt has been making important contributions to social theory for more than 50 years. He combines sociological theory with historical and empirical research in his studies of modernity and civilisations, and has had great influence in sociology, political science, history, reli...