The Context of Democracy

Under the auspices of the Research Field "Political Philosophy of the 19th and 20th Centuries" this years' Summer School was organized again in cooperation with IWM's Partner Institutions: the Erasmus of Rotterdam Chair and the Collegium for Interdepartmental Studies, both at the University of Warsaw; the New Europe College, Bucharest; the Center for Theoretical Studies, Charles University, Prague; the Institute for Contemporary History, Prague; and the Society for Higher Learning, Bratislava.

1. Basic Problems of Political Philosophy 

Leszek Kolakowski, Krzysztof Michalski 

2. Liberalism and Pluralism

John Gray, Marcin Król 

3. Supranational and International Levels of Democracy

Dario Castiglione, Ulrich K. Preuss

4. Democracy Formation, Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Europe

Shlomo Avineri, Aleksander Smolar