Joseph Carens: Between Aliens and Citizens

Hoesch Matthias, Mooren Nadine

Abstract

This volume is the result of the 22nd Münster Lectures in Philosophy, held with Joseph Carens. In November 2018, Joseph Carens was a guest at the Department of Philosophy and the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, where he gave an evening talk and joined a two-day colloquium dedicated to his work. The papers presented in the colloquium had been prepared by graduate students and junior reserachers from the Department of Philosophy as the result of several months' engagement with Carens's philosophy in seminars and discussion groups. This volume comprises an introduction that outlines Joseph Carens's Political Philosophy, the evening talk that Carens gave, the papers presented at the colloquium, and Carens's detailed replies to the critical remarks made by students. The volume addresses philosophical arguments concerning issues of immigration and cultural pluralism as well as the methodology of political philosophy in general.