Spinozalezingen 2026

De Spinoza-leerstoel wordt dit jaar bekleed door, Bonnie Honig, Professor of Modern Culture and Media (MCM) en Political Science aan Brown University. Haar onderzoek richt zich op het gebruik van politieke theorie, literatuur, recht en film om vraagstukken rond immigratie, noodtoestanden, democratie en gender opnieuw te formuleren in meer agonistische en egalitaire termen.

About Bonnie Honig

Bonnie Honig is the Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media, as well as Political Science, at Brown University. She rethinks issues surrounding immigration, states of emergency, democracy, and gender in more agonistic and egalitarian terms through her research on political theory, literature, law, and film.

Honig is the author of numerous influential books, including Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (Cornell, 1993); Democracy and the Foreigner (Princeton, 2001); Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy (Princeton, 2009); Antigone, Interrupted (Cambridge, 2013); Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair (Fordham, 2017), A Feminist Theory of Refusal (Harvard, 2021), and Shell Shocked: Feminist Criticism After Trump (Fordham, 2021), a collection of revised versions of her public essays since 2016.

As the co-founder of the Democracy Project at Brown University and the director of the Varieties of Democratic Experience research program, Honig has written extensively on the cultural politics of misogyny. Since 2013, she has advocated for a politics of "public things" as a guiding principle for contemporary democracy. Honig has published approximately seventy articles and eleven books and has served as co-editor of several collections. She is currently working on The Accidental Ordinary: Language, Politics, Metamorphosis, which will be the theme of her lectures in 2026 as the Spinoza Chair of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam.

Leerstoelhouders 1995-heden

2025 - Jennifer Lackey (Epistemic Reparations and the Right to Be Known en Stories that Wrong and Stories that Repair)
2024 - Paul C. Taylor (registration of lectures: Reconsidering the Racial Reckoning en What is wrong with Antiracism)
2023 - Linda Martín Alcoff (registratie van de lezingen: Extractivism as a model for Modern Epistemology en A Decolonial Dialogic Approach as a Corrective Epistemology)
2022 - Charles Mills (Charles Mills overleed in het najaar van 2021, Lewis R. Gordon en Philomena Essed spraken in zijn plaats)
2021 - Robert Brandom (registratie van de lezingen: A Rortyan Pragmatist Master-Argument en Hegel’s Recollective Account of Representation)
2019 - Catherine Malabou (registratie van de lezingen: Beyond the 'archic' Principle en Morality and Horizontality)
2018 - Susan Wolf (registratie van de lezingen: Aesthetic Responsibility en Selves Like Us)
2017 - Béatrice Longuenesse (registratie van de lezingen: Perplexing I en Two unlikely bedfellows: Kant and Freud on Morality)
2016 - Jonathan Lear
2015 - Sally Haslanger
2014 - Quentin Skinner
2013 - Onora O’Neill 
2012 - Michael Friedmann
2011 - Cristina Lafont
2010 - Moira Gatens
2009 - Robert Pippin
2008 - Asma Barlas
2007 - Herman De Dijn, Jonathan Israel en Steven Nadler (ter gelegenheid van de 375e geboortedag van Spinoza werden dit jaar drie Spinozakenners uitgenodigd)
2006 - John Dupré 
2005 - Bruno Latour 
2004 - Nancy Fraser
2003 - Hubert Dreyfus 
2002 - Judith Butler 
2001 - Hilary Putnam 
2000 - Seyla Benhabib 
1999 - Axel Honneth 
1998 - Stanley Cavell 
1997 - Richard Rorty 
1996 - Albrecht Wellmer 
1995 - Manfred Frank, Daniel C. Dennett en Will Kymlicka

Publicaties

De volgende teksten van de Spinoza Lezingen zijn gepubliceerd door Uitgeverij Van Gorcum: