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Cristina Lafont Cristina Lafont Department of Philosophy Norhtwestern University Kresge 3441 1880 Campus Drive Evanston, Illinois 60208 [email protected] Education 2000 Habilitation, University of Frankfurt, Germany 1992 Ph.D. summa cum laude (Philosophy) University of Frankfurt, Germany Advisor: Jürgen Habermas 1987 M.A. cum laude (Philosophy) University of Valencia, Spain 1986 B.A. (Philosophy) University of Valencia, Spain Academic Positions 2018- present Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University 2017- present Chair, Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University 2015- present Director, Program in Critical Theory, Northwestern University 2010-2013 Wender-Lewis Research and Teaching Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University 2005- present Professor, Northwestern University 2001-2005 Associate Professor, Northwestern University 1995-2001 Assistant Professor, Northwestern University 1992-1995 Researcher, Institute of Philosophy (Spanish Council for Scientific Research), Spain 1993-95 Lecturer, University of Frankfurt, Germany Fellowships, Grants, Honors 2018- present Faculty Fellow, Buffett Institute 2015- present Co-director of the Research Group on Global Capitalism and Law, Buffett Institute, Northwestern University. 2019, May Lectures in Normative Theory, University of Hamburg, Germany. 2016-17 Hewlett Fellow, WCAS. 2013-14 ASG Faculty Honor Roll 2013, November Clough Distinguished Lecture in Jurisprudence, Boston College 2012-13 Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, Germany. 1 2011, Spring Spinoza Chair and Lectures, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2011, December Lectures on Global Justice, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile. 2009, September García Máynez Lectures, Universidad Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico. 2008, December The Secularity and Value Annual Lecture, London School of Economics, London. 2007, Summer Visiting Professor, University of Oviedo, Spain 2000, Summer Visiting Professor, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid 1994, Fall Visiting Professor, Universidad Autónoma de Méjico, Mexico 2015-2018 “Big Ideas” Grant for the study of Global Capitalism and Law, with Prof. Karen Alter (political science) and Prof. Bruce Carruthers (sociology), Buffett Institute for Global Studies, Northwestern University. 2014 EDGS Conference Grant in support of the International Conference Critical Theory in Critical Times, May, 2-4, 2014, Equality, Development and Globalization Studies Program, Buffet Center, Northwestern University. 1999 Grant for publication of the book Heidegger, Language, and World-disclosure, (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Northwestern University Research Grants Committee. 1996 Grant for publication of the book The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy, (MIT Press 1999), National Research Grants Committee, Spain. 1990-92 DAAD Fellowship, University of Frankfurt, Germany. 1987-90 National Fellowship for Young Researchers (4-years), University of Frankfurt, Germany. Publications Books: - Democracy without Shortcuts. A Participatory Conception of Deliberative Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020) German edition: Unverkürzte Demokratie. Eine Partizitipatorische Interpretation der Deliberative Demokratie (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, forthcoming). Spanish edition: Democracia sin atajos. Una concepción participatoria de la democracia deliberativa (Madrid: Trotta, forthcoming) - Global Governance and Human Rights (Spinoza Lectures Series, Amsterdam: van Gorcum, 2012) - Heidegger, Language and World-Disclosure (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) German edition: Sprache und Welterschließung. Zur linguistischen Wende der Hermeneutik Heideggers (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 1994). Spanish edition: Lenguaje y apertura del mundo (Madrid: Alianza Ed., 1997) - The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999; paperback 2002) Spanish edition: La razón como lenguaje. Un análisis del giro lingüístico en la filosofía del 2 lenguaje alemana (Madrid: Visor, 1993). Chinese edition: Zhejiang University Press, forthcoming. Edited volumes: - The Future of Critical Theory: Transforming the Global Political and Economic Order (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017). Co-edited with P. Deutscher. - Habermas Handbuch (Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag, 2009). Co-edited with H. Brunkhorst and R. Kreide. English edition: The Habermas Handbook, Columbia University Press, 2017. Chinese edition: Social Sciences Academic Press Beijing, forthcoming. Articles: - “Democracy without Shortcuts,” 25th Anniversary Issue on “Democracy in a World of Crisis,” Constellations, 26 (2019), 355-360. - “Neoliberal Globalization and the International Protection of Human Rights,” Constellations 25/3 (2018), 315-328. - “Deliberative Democracy and the Problem of the Second Best,” The Good Society, symposium on James Fishkin’s Democracy with the People are Thinking, 27/1-2 (2018), 130- 145. - “Can Democracy be Deliberative and Participatory? The Democratic Case for Political Uses of Minipublics,” Daedalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, special issue on Prospects and Limits of Deliberative Democracy, ed. by J. Fishkin and J. Mansbridge, 146/3 (2017), 85-105. - “Separation of Church and State” in G. Oppy ed., The Blackwell Companion to Atheism and Philosophy, Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 2019, 436-448, forthcoming. - “Language and the Linguistic Turn” in A. Allen and E. Mendieta, eds., The Cambridge Habermas Lexicon, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming. - “Heidegger and The Frankfurt School” in E. Hammer, A. Honneth and P. Gordon, eds., The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School, London: Routledge, forthcoming. - “Should we take the “Human” out of Human Rights? Human Dignity in a Corporate World,” Ethics & International Affairs, 30/2 (2016), 233-252. Reprinted in M. Lutz-Bachmann and A. Nascimento, eds., Human Dignity. Perspectives from a Critical Theory of Human Rights, NY: Routledge, 2018, 84-104. - “Sovereignty and the International Protection of Human Rights,” The Journal of Political Philosophy, 24/4 (2016), 427-445. - “Philosophical Foundations of Judicial Review,” in D. Dyzenhaus and M. Thornburn, eds., Philosophical Foundations of Constitutional Law, Oxford University Press, 2016, 265-282. - “Religion in the Public Sphere,” in J. Shook and P. Zuckerman, eds., The Oxford Handbook on Secularism, Oxford University Press 2017, 271-286. Revised edition: “Citizens in Robes: The Place of Religion in Constitutional Democracies,” Philosophy & Social Criticism, special issue: Reset-Dialogues Istanbul Seminars 2016, 43/4-5 3 (2017), 453-64. - “Deliberation, Participation and Democratic Legitimacy: Should Deliberative Minipublics shape Public Policy?”, The Journal of Political Philosophy, 23/1 (2015), 40-63. - “Human Rights, Sovereignty, and the Responsibility to Protect”, Constellations 22/1 (2015), 68-78. Reprinted in P. Deutscher and C. Lafont, eds., Critical Theory in Critical Times: Transforming the Global Political and Economic Order, New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming. - “Jürgen Habermas,” in N. Keane and C. Lawn, eds., The Blackwell Companion to Hermeneutics, Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 2016, 440-45. - “Martin Heidegger,” in N. Keane and C. Lawn, eds., The Blackwell Companion to Hermeneutics, Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 2016, 389-96. - “Religious Pluralism in a Deliberative Democracy”, in F. Requejo and C. Ungureanu, eds., Democracy, Law and Religious Pluralism in Europe, London: Routledge, 2014 (ppk 2016), 46-60. Reprinted in K. Appel (ed.) Europa mit oder ohne Religion? Beiträge der Religionen für das gegenwärtige und künftige Europa, Vienna: Vienna University Press, 2014, 39-56. - La religió en l'esfera pública / Religion in the Public Sphere, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, 2013. - “The Cunning of Law: Remarks on Hauke Brunkhorst’s Critical Theory of Legal Revolutions,” Social & Legal Studies 23/4 (2014), 565-575. - “Habermas on the Future of the Human Species and Biotechnology,” in E. Mendieta, ed., Habermas Now, Polity Press, forthcoming. - “Transcendental vs Hermeneutic Phenomenology in Being and Time,” in S. Gardner and M. Grist, eds., The Transcendental Turn, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, 278-293. - “Global Governance and Human Rights”, in M. Lutz-Bachmann and A. Nascimento, eds., Human Rights, Human Dignity and Cosmopolitan Ideals, Ashgate, 2014, 45-74. - “Correctness and Legitimacy in the Discourse Theory of Law”, in M. Klatt (ed.), Institutionalized Reason. The Jurisprudence of Robert Alexy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 291-306. - “Human Rights and the Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions,” Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofía Política 2/1 (2013), 1-33. - “Law, Normativity and Legitimacy: Can Moral Constructivism be fruitful for Legal Theory?”, in S. Bertea and G. Pavlakos, eds., New Essays on the Normative Dimension of Law, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2011, 229-45. Revised edition: “Agreement and Consent in Kant and Habermas: Can Kantian Constructivism be fruitful for Democratic Theory?” Philosophical Forum 43/3 (2012), 277- 95. - “Accountability and Global Governance: Challenging the state-centric Conception of Human Rights,” Ethics & Global Politics, 3/3 (2010), 193-215. German translation: “Rechenschaftspflicht und Global Governace. Zur Kritik der staatszentrierten Menschenrechtskonzeption”, in R. Kreide, C. Landwehr and K Toens, eds. Demokratie und Gerechtigkeit in Verteilungskonflikten, Nomos 21 (2012), 71-102. Spanish translation: “Responsabilidad,
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