Religious Influences on Post-War Liberalism

Dec 22

Written By The Center on Modernity in Transition

Malachi Hacohen and Samuel Moyn discuss the relative influence of Judaism and Christianity upon liberalism’s evolution after the Second World War, as well as the possible role that religious ideas might again play in shaping future developments of political thought. They also explore the limits of the current liberal order and how we might overcome them.

Speakers

MALACHI HACOHER

Malachi Hacohen is Professor of History at Duke University and Director of the Religions and Public Life Initiative at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke. His book *Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902-1945* won American Historical Association’s Herbert Baxter Adams Prize in 2001. His recent book *Jacob & Esau: Jewish European History Between Nation & Empire* won the Center for Austrian Studies biennial book prize in 2020.

SAMUEL MOYN

Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of *Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World* (2018) and *Christian Human Rights* (2015).

Moderators:

SHAHRZAD SABET

Shahrzad Sabet is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT) and a Fellow at New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge. Her current book project, which spans a variety of disciplines, makes the case for a reimagined universalism that reconciles the oneness and the diversity of humankind.

BENJAMIN SCHEWEL

Benjamin Schewel is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT). He is author of Seven Ways of Looking at Religion (2017) and is currently working on a second book, Encountering the Axial Age, both from Yale University Press.

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The Liberal Imaginary and Beyond brought together leading thinkers to examine the origins, contents, and development of post-war liberalism, and to consider significant attempts to move beyond the resultant liberal imaginary without casting aside its impressive moral and political achievements. Sponsored by the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge, and COMIT.

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