The J.R. Seeley Lectures 2019
Professor Elizabeth Anderson
(Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan)
The Great Reversal: How Neoliberalism
turned Classical Liberal Principles Against Workers
Tuesday 7 May
Neoliberalism and its Puritan Roots: A Tale of Two Work Ethics
Thursday 9 May
Locke and Classical Liberals through the Lens of the Work Ethic: A (Mostly) Progressive Tale
Tuesday 14 May
Bentham and Malthus through the Lens of the Work Ethic: A Conservative Tale
Thursday 16 May
Neoliberalism as a Reversion from the Progressive to the Conservative Work Ethic
The lectures were delivered at 5pm in the Runcie Lecture Theatre in the Faculty of Divinity (entrance opposite the entrance to the History Faculty, map here).
Professor Anderson is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. Her work in moral and political philosophy focuses on democratic theory, with a particular focus on equality, race and the ethical limits of markets. She is currently working on a history of egalitarianism, examining the epistemology of moral learning through the prism of the history of abolitionism.
Value in Ethics and Economics (Harvard, 1993)
The Imperative of Integration (Princeton, 2010)
Private Government: How Employers Rule our Lives (And Why We Don’t Talk About It) (Princeton, 2017).
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The Seeley Lectures, our premier lecture series, are given every two years. They are open to all and free of charge.