Dear friend of Arkadia,

You are heartily invited to Discourses on Inequality: The Nineteenth-Century ’Social Question’ in Retrospect by Tom Hopkins from the University of Helsinki on Friday 17.8 at 6pm at Old Arkadia ( Pohjoinen Hesperiankatu 9).

This talk focuses upon the transformations in European political and social theory occasioned by the socio-economic upheavals of the early nineteenth century.

The problem that began to impinge upon political thinkers at that time, and that remains with us to this day, was the question of how to square the level of political and civil equality demanded by the modern representative republic with the inequalities generated by an industrialized market-economy. This has often been taken as the taproot for the ideological divisions that continue to a large extent to structure modern politics in the west, but if we look a little more closely at the intellectual scene in early nineteenth-century Europe, we find a far more variegated and intriguing range of political debate than has typically been delivered by conventional histories of the rise of liberalism, socialism, conservatism and so on.

Welcome!

Warm regards,

Ian
www.arkadiabookshop.fi

– Entrance is free and green tea will be served. A donation of €2 (or more!) is suggested and would be very welcome.