The AUTHLIB consortium cordially invites you to the hybrid public lecture titled
From Christian Democracy to Christian Autocracy
by
Jan-Werner Müller
(Princeton University)
organized on
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
17:00 – 18:30
at
CEU Democracy Institute, Room 101
(1055 Budapest, Nádor utca 15.)
If you would like to attend in person or online, please
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Kindly note that space is limited.
Abstract:
The talk revisits three distinct strategies through which political thinkers tried to reconcile religion, in particular Catholicism, and modern democracy. It will cover the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; it will also suggest that the twenty-first century has seen the emergence of two strands of thought that might resemble elements of those older strategies: Christian identitarian populism and soft versions of integralism. The talk will offer a number of reasons as to why these new strands of thought in fact betray the proper traditions of Christian Democracy.
Speaker:
Jan-Werner Müller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Politics, Princeton University. He is the Founding Director of the Project in the History of Political Thought. He works mainly in democratic theory and the history of modern political thought; he also has a research interest in the relationship between architecture and politics, as well as the normative implications of the current structural transformations of the public sphere. Publications include Constitutional Patriotism (2007) and What is Populism? (2016), which has been translated into more than twenty languages. 2019 saw the publication of Furcht und Freiheit: Für einen anderen Liberalismus, which won the Bavarian Book Prize. 2021 saw the publication of Democracy Rules by FSG in the US and Penguin in the UK. His public affairs commentary and essays have appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, the New York Times, and Project Syndicate.
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This event takes place in the framework of the “AUTHLIB – Neo-authoritarianisms in Europe and the Liberal Democratic Response” project funded by the European Union and the UK Research and Innovation. Views and opinions expressed are however do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or UK Research and Innovation. Neither the European Union nor the UK Research and Innovation can be held responsible for them.
