BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.7.3//EN TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0-12@visions-for-the-future.sites.uu.nl DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20250515T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20250515T183000 DTSTAMP:20250516T092706Z URL:https://visions-for-the-future.sites.uu.nl/events/speaker-series-with- dr-mark-reiff-2/ SUMMARY:Speaker Series with Dr. Mark Reiff DESCRIPTION:\nAnalytical Fascism: What Stares Back When One Stares into the De-Enlightenment. 15 May\, 2025\, 17:00-18:30 (CEST)\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www .youtube.com/watch?v=5lYgrhak-4k&\;feature=youtu.be\n\n\n\n\nTo know mo re about Mark Reiff's work visit his website\, where you can find more det ails of his publications and previous talks. \n\n\n\nThe Speaker Series Ev ent was based on Mark Reiff's recent book Analytical Fascism: What Stares Back When One Stares into the De-Enlightenment (George Washington Universi ty\, 2024) (available here). Other publications that might be of interest include 'Trump and the End of Liberalism' (The Critique\, January-February \, 2017) and 'Two Theories of Economic Liberalism' (The Adam Smith Review\ , 2017). The list of Mark Reiff's publications is available on his website . \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the session: While it is clear what those attracte d to fascism today are against\, it is less clear what they are for. Not i n the sense of how they want to remake society—this is usually clear eno ugh. What is less clear is the fundamental values that are driving their d esire to create a different kind of order. Compounding this difficulty\, t oo many liberals are stubbornly sticking to some conventional beliefs: tha t human nature is as liberals think it is\, not something that is fundamen tally disputed\; that facts are what liberals think they are\, even if som e people choose to ignore them\; and that everybody is pursuing basically the same conception of the good\, even if some of them are deluded as to w here we are now and how to get where we want to go.\n\n\n\nBut this move t o the right is not being driven simply by mistakes\; it is a principled mo ve\, backed by a coherent\, consistent\, and historically well-sourced val ue system\, even if this value system is perverse. Fascism has its own con ception of the moral subject\; of the need for a rigid social hierarchy of men\; of the nature of individual rights\; and of the importance of purit y in blood\, soil\, and ideology. It believes in the unity of the people\, the leader\, and \;the state\; it embraces very different and (to lib erals) often disturbing moral ends\; and it employs starkly different rule s of social interaction. And it believes\, in the end\, that this all lead s to the greatest expression of democracy ever invented.\n\n\n\nAbout the speaker: Mark R. Reiff is the author of six \;books: \;Analytical& nbsp\;Fascism: What Stares Back \;When One Stares into the De-Enlighte nment \;(George Washington University Illiberalism Studies\, \;202 4)\; \;In the Name of Liberty: The Argument for Universal Unionization  \;(Cambridge University Press\, 2020)\; \;On Unemployment\, Volum e I: A Micro-Theory of Economic Justice \;and \;Volume II: Achievi ng Economic Justice after the Great Recession \;(Palgrave Macmillan\, 2015)\; \;Exploitation and Economic Justice in the Liberal Capitalist State \;(Oxford University Press\, 2013)\; \;and \;Punishment\ , Compensation\, and Law: A Theory of Enforceability \;(Cambridge Univ ersity Press\, 2005). \; His papers on issues within political\, legal \, and moral philosophy have appeared in leading academic journals in the US\, the UK\, France\, and Canada\, and his work \;has \;been tran slated into French\, German\, Italian\, Portuguese\, Japanese\, and Chines e. \;Dr. Reiff has taught political\, legal\, and moral philosophy at the University of Manchester\, the University of Durham\, The Frankfurt Sc hool of Finance and Management\, and the University of California at Davis . In 2008-09\, Dr Reiff was a Faculty Fellow at the Safra Center for Ethic s at Harvard University.  \;\n\n\n\nTo register for this online event\ , please use this registration form.\n\n\n\nAny additional questions about the Vision Speaker Series\, please email Catarina Neves at a.c.moiteiroda sneves@uu.nl. \;\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR