James Gledhill Postdoctoral Fellow Resident at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: September 2012 – August 2013 Research topic at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: »Political Autonomy in Practice« Project outline: The aim of my research project is to introduce a burgeoning literature that develops Hegelian insights into the normativity of social practices into debates in political philosophy regarding the practice-dependence of principles of justice. This project is building towards a monograph on Political Autonomy in Practice: Constructing and Reconstructing Social Practices in which I will develop this theoretical framework and then apply it to two crucial and interconnected areas of political debate: the future of the institutions of the welfare state and the development, through practices of reflexive constitution-making, of just institutions beyond the nation state. (James Gledhill) Funding of the stay: »Justitia Amplificata. Rethinking Justice − Applied and Global«Scholarly profile of James GledhillIn 2010, James Gledhill recieved his PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. The subject of his thesis is »Political Theory and Social Practices: G.A. Cohen, Rawls, Habermas and the Problem of Self-grounding«.Main areas of research: Social, political and legal philosophySelected publications:
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